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Securitization is declining further as a bank funding source into the first quarter of 2015, according to the Bank of England's survey of bank liabilities. Despite a larger proportion of wholesale funding overall, the proportion of asset-backed securities fell sharply in Q4 2014 and is expected to carry on falling in 2015. -
The door could be closed on the last round of lawsuits related to crisis-era RMBS, after a recent appellate court decision in favour of an RMBS trustee.
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Servicer advance securitizations by Ocwen Financial, and RMBS tied to Ocwen’s servicing, could yield less for investors than expected following a $150m settlement and consent order it reached with the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) last Friday.
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Opportunities for investors in primary and secondary residential mortgage-backed securities markets have started to dwindle because of declining liquidity in legacy RMBS, but other yieldy products might fill the gap in 2015, market participants say.
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AK BARS Bank has completed a securitization of mortgages through VTB Capital, which GlobalCapital understands will not be the last RMBS of 2014 for Russia’s domestic market even as international investors fear the country will suffer bank and corporate defaults next year.
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Five Oaks has partnered with Credit Suisse to issue a $272m RMBS deal backed by prime jumbo mortgages. The real estate investment trust partnered with JP Morgan to bring previous deals.
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Santander UK has restructured the Holmes master trust to make sure its bonds meet the standards for the European Banking Authority’s Liquidity Coverage Ratio, so that banks will be able use Holmes RMBS notes in category “2B” of their liquidity buffers.
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The European Securities and Markets Authority has criticised the rating process for European mortgage securitizations after a study of the four largest rating agencies that it began in October 2013.
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The resignation of Starwood Waypoint’s chief accounting officer (CAO) just after the pricing of the issuer’s first single family rental (SFR) securitization has been seen as a red flag by some market participants, but secondary market trading has not suggested a negative reaction to his departure.
