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RFC issued on reverse mortgages
Moody's is seeking comments from market participants on its proposed approach to assessing structure...
News Round-up 9 January 2015 -
Boost for Indian real estate
KKR has established a non-banking financial company (NBFC) that will provide structured credit solut...
Job Swaps 9 January 2015 -
Looking for levels
European ABS/MBS secondary market activity continues to increase slowly but participants are still t...
SCIWire 9 January 2015 -
US RMBS looks ahead
Secondary activity in US non-agency RMBS has gradually picked up this week, but next week is expecte...
SCIWire 8 January 2015 -
GCM backs new investment manager
A new global structured products investment management firm, Hollis Park Partners, has launched with...
Job Swaps 8 January 2015 -
Acenden sale agreed
Blackstone Tactical Opportunities and TPG Special Situations Partners (TSSP) are set to acquire Acen...
Job Swaps 8 January 2015 -
Euro ABS/MBS activity continues to rise
Trading activity in the European ABS/MBS secondary market is slowly but surely increasing as the wee...
SCIWire 8 January 2015 -
FHA MIPs moved down
The FHA's mortgage insurance premiums (MIPs) are being lowered by 50bp. This brings policy risk back...
News 8 January 2015 -
Reps and warranties remain 'challenging'
The US RMBS sector has seen some substantial improvements of late, though the pace of progress remai...
News Round-up 7 January 2015 -
Spanish RMBS delinquencies up
Severe delinquencies that last more than 90 days in Spanish RMBS peaked at 6.18% in 3Q14 following a...
News Round-up 7 January 2015 -
Ellington portfolio acquired
American Homes 4 Rent has acquired the Ellington Housing Single-Family portfolio. The company paid a...
News Round-up 7 January 2015 -
Russian RMBS ratings rethought
Ongoing economic sanctions against Russia are affecting RMBS, with Moody's downgrading the ratings o...
News Round-up 7 January 2015 -
SEC targets RMBS fraudsters
The SEC has charged VERO Capital and the firm's president, Robert Geiger, general counsel, George Ba...
News Round-up 7 January 2015 -
Ocwen settlement 'credit neutral'
Ocwen Financial's recent US$150m settlement with the NYDFS (SCI 23 December 2014) is credit neutral...
News Round-up 7 January 2015 -
Variations in loan mod losses
US RMBS servicers are not uniformly reporting losses associated with principal forbearance loan modi...
News Round-up 7 January 2015 -
Euro ABS/MBS picks up positively
Activity in the European ABS/MBS secondary market is finally beginning to pick up with a slightly po...
SCIWire 7 January 2015