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As investors and service providers pour into the market for Greek non-performing loans, authorities in the country have proposed two schemes to help the country's banks meet their ambitious targets for selling off these assets and cleaning up their balance sheets. Only one of them deserves serious consideration. -
Mark Calabria, economist and adviser to the vice-president, sat before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday in an official confirmation hearing to become director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the chief regulator of the US housing finance system.
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The Spanish RMBS sector is bracing itself for the impact of legislators’ push to compensate borrowers for early foreclosure periods.
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Rizwan Hussain, the controversial figure who runs investment vehicle Clifden Isle of Man No 1, has been declared insolvent, according to UK court records, even while a separate investment vehicle he controls, Greencoat Investments Ltd, is in the market trying to take control of pre-crisis securitization from the Business Mortgage Finance series. The insolvency isn’t Hussain’s only trouble, GlobalCapital understands, with at least one investment bank having reported him to the regulator over a previous tender for UK RMBS notes.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) is looking to set up its own platform in collaboration with the Sociedad de Gestión de Activos procedentes de la Reestructuración Bancaria (Sarreb) in order to shift European non-performing loans (NPLs).
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Major private equity firms, including Blackstone, CarVal, Cerberus and TPG, are selling control rights to the giant UK mortgage portfolios they bought three or four years ago, rather than waiting to call and refinance the deals. Is the rush to the exits a sign of Brexit trouble to come, or a way to make space for a bigger prize in the shape of the final mortgage sales from UK government crisis-era rescues? Owen Sanderson investigates.
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Announced back in 2011 and with a looming deadline in June, the debut of the uniform mortgage backed security (UMBS) has often been described as the most substantial reform to the US housing market in decades. But it has not been without its fair share of critics, including some money managers who still see virtues in two separately priced markets.
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The UK RMBS market’s switch to Sonia-based funding from sterling Libor is being slowed by data company Bloomberg’s modelling facilities, according to several market sources.
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The inclusion of a dollar tranche and the relatively small size on offer should lead to a strong result for Lanark 2019-1, the first public consumer new issue in European securitization this year, despite originator Clydesdale Bank opting not to use the new ‘simple, transparent and standardised’ regulation, as outlined by European Banking Authority (EBA). The spread level, roughly twice that of the last Lanark issue, should also help it fly.
