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  • Prepayments on mortgage-backed securities from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac slowed in December and January, according to Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.
  • Fitch Ratings predicts that issuance of private-label residential mortgage-backed securities this year will be slim, despite renewed investor interest in legacy subprime debt.
  • Dutch residential mortgage-backed securities withstood ongoing economic difficulties in the fourth quarter, according to Standard & Poor’s.
  • The Federal Housing Administration is planning on tightening standards for approving lenders, a move that could drive up the prepayment risks for investors in securities back by Ginnie Mae loans, according to Barclays Capital analysts.
  • The Federal Reserve is said to be preparing for a second offer of an estimated $6 billion residential mortgage-backed securities that it acquired as part of a bailout of American International Group.
  • Wachovia Capital Markets could escape a lawsuit filed by the National Credit Union Administration over losses it claims came from residential mortgage-backed securities sold to its members, if the NCUA fails to convince the court that the action should not be dismissed.
  • The state of California has filed suit against Northern Trust for investing in mortgage-backed securities that resulted in a loss of $95 million to the Los Angeles Employees Retirement System pension fund.
  • The recent tender offers seen in Spanish and Portuguese residential mortgage-backed securities are not expected to spark off a major rally in peripheral market securitizations, according to London-based market officials.
  • Europe’s residential mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities markets are seeing sustained secondary activity, with busy trading expected to carry over from last month well into February, according to secondary traders in London.