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  • West Bromwich Building Society (WBBS) priced its first RMBS deal in five years on Thursday, selling the bonds well inside initial guidance. The comfortably oversubscribed order book showed that further supply can be easily absorbed by the market.
  • The strength of demand for UK RMBS was highlighted on Wednesday with the launch of Charter Mortgages’ Precise Mortgage Funding 2018-1B, with the deal being priced well inside of initial guidance and all tranches subscribed multiple times over.
  • Charter Court Financial Services and BlackRock's London Wall Mortgage Capital are in the market with two UK buy-to-let RMBS deals, Precise Mortgage Funding 2018-1 and Fleet 2018-01. The deals take advantage of strong demand for UK RMBS seen in last week’s Finsbury Square 2018-1.
  • Corrado Passera, former CEO of Intesa Sanpaolo and government minister, is leading the promotion of a €500m special purpose acquisition company (Spac) focusing on financial services.
  • Clifden IOM No.1, a real estate-focused hedge fund, has launched an audacious bid to take control of £2bn of pre-crisis UK mortgages, launching a tender that could forestall a refinancing of the portfolios by the original lender, Paratus AMC. Owen Sanderson reports.
  • Kensington, which is now known as Northview Group (NVG), has issued its largest new origination RMBS transaction post-crisis at the tightest spreads.
  • Demand for the mezzanine tranches of RMBS Finsbury Square has been strong, boding well for a series of new UK RMBS issues that hit came to market on Wednesday.
  • Clifden IOM No. 1, a real estate-focused hedge fund, has launched a tender for UK RMBS bonds totalling £2bn from the RMAC series, which were issued before the crisis by non-conforming lender GMAC-RFC. The fund has stayed tight-lipped about its strategy, but some see it as an attempt to seize control of the collateral, following an announcement before Christmas that the original sponsors could call the deals.
  • Agency credit risk transfer (CRT) RMBS has started 2018 in rally mode, with the secondary market performance of bonds across triple-B, double-B and unrated classes surpassing analysts' expectations.