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Freddie Mac this week completed its final sale of whole loan securities for the year. -
The UK government has empowered the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC) to place new limits on buy-to-let mortgage lending. This could boost credit quality, though market players fear the measures may stifle new origination.
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Investors snapped up a rare UK master trust RMBS deal from Lloyds Bank’s Permanent Master Trust, backed by prime mortgages originated by Bank of Scotland.
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The US Federal Reserve will respond accordingly to the fiscal policy of a Republican Congress and the incoming administration of Donald Trump, Fed chair Janet Yellen said during a testimony before the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee on Thursday.
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Deutsche Bank has set up a contractual covered bond programme that risks write-down under Germany's so far untested resolution law. The bonds, which will be used for ECB repo purposes, are backed by assets which aren't eligible for traditional Pfandbriefe and are rated AAA by DBRS.
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The long term future of government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the potential to finally recast their role in US housing finance, is back on the agenda under a newly emboldened Republican legislature.
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Freddie Mac has released its issuance calendar for credit risk transfer (CRT) transactions in 2017, looking to increase its flexibility in when to issue deals in the coming year.
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Russia’s economy minister Alexey Ulyukaev was detained on Tuesday after allegations that he accepted a “grand bribe” from Rosneft in exchange for allowing it to buy Bashneft earlier this year.
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Bank of Scotland is to follow Yorkshire Building Society into the prime UK RMBS market, with UK institutions expected to remain active in the market despite the availability of cheap funding from the Bank of England’s Term Funding Scheme (TFS).
