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It plans to include transactions backed by second lien fixed rate mortgages originated post-crisis
Public versus private distinction scrapped for disclosure plus new, simplified templates for mature asset classes
Meanwhile, ADMT has set guidance for its $602m non-prime deal
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Blackstone's Invitation Homes has secured preliminary triple-A ratings from Kroll and Morningstar for its third single-family rental securitization of the year, despite concerns over the deal's high leverage and low incomes from the rental properties in the portfolio.
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Allegations made by New York financial watchdog Benjamin Lawsky that loan servicer Ocwen Financial backdated thousands of letters to borrowers, preventing them from appealing denials of loan modifications, could lead to increased servicing disruption and significant costs for residential mortgage-backed security (RMBS) investors, said analysts on Wednesday. -
JP Morgan and Citi announced jumbo RMBS deals this week, bucking a trend in which many would-be issuers have opted to retain jumbos on balance sheet rather than launch securitizations.
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Clarifications on representations and warranties of mortgages purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could apply to the agencies’ risk-sharing deals, a Freddie Mac spokesperson told GlobalCapital following comments by Federal Housing Finance Agency director Melvin Watt on Monday.
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More euro-denominated transactions are ready to hit the European ABS pipeline this month, but drawing out sterling transactions is proving a tougher assignment for syndicate teams who are battling against well funded issuers and anticipation of European Central Bank purchases.
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More agency RMBS could be coming to the market if an agreement between Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and mortgage lenders to clarify liabilities and relax the government sponsored enterprises’ mortgage purchasing standards is reached as expected. The agreement comes as Freddie Mac prepares two new risk-sharing deals.
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ABN Amro priced its €500m five year Dolphin RMBS at the tight end of guidance on Wednesday morning, demonstrating the relative resilience of core ABS to a broader market slump and placing the trade directly between recent prints from Dutch rivals Aegon and Obvion.
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Yorkshire Building Society is preparing to price its first RMBS transaction of the year on Friday morning at the end of a torrid week of secondary trading that has sent comps for the deal bouncing around in a 10bp range.
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JP Morgan is at the head of a consortium that has acquired a £2.7bn portfolio of legacy performing UK residential mortgages from the UK government’s bad bank, and has structured the assets into two RMBS transactions to syndicate to investors.
