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Chris Woolard, executive director of strategy and competition at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, has warned mortgage bankers about the explosive grow in the lifetime mortgage section of the market — a move driven partly by regulatory changes for the UK’s life insurers. -
The Federal Reserve unveiled changes to US bank regulatory standards last week that would reduce or eliminate liquidity coverage ratios at mid-size financial firms. Many in the agency MBS market expect the move to weigh on demand for tier one Ginnie Mae bonds.
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Alternative investment management firm Ellington, founded in 1994 and based in Connecticut, has teamed up with London-based Trium Capital to launch a long/short credit UCITS fund later this quarter.
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Fannie Mae on Wednesday priced a $922m note offering from its Connecticut Avenue Securities (CAS) programme, using a REMIC structure for the first time to allow more investors to participate in the burgeoning credit risk transfer (CRT) market.
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Waterfall Asset Management, a credit-focused hedge fund that specializes in ABS investments, is in the market with what it claims is the first publicly rated securitization of reverse mortgages.
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After years of work and numerous consultations, US regulators are still grappling with guidance for new floating rate note (FRN) contracts and the problem of how to fairly reset existing financial agreements that use Libor as a reference rate.
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Uncertainty over the ultimate shape of the European Union’s simple transparent and standardised (STS) securitization framework may be hampering investor demand for top quality securitizations, according to bankers.
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The Council of the European Union agreed on a softer line for writing down non-performing loans on Wednesday, extending the timeline that European banks will be given to provision bad loans down to 0%. The Council’s proposals also add a third category of NPLs to the planned distinction between ‘secured’ and ‘unsecured’, giving separate treatment to loans secured on 'movable' collateral.
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At a concluding panel at the SFIG Mortgage Symposium in New York on Tuesday, experts and executives in mortgage finance expressed concerns that the Trump administration’s sharp focus on boosting economic growth could hinder plans to scale back the footprint of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
