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  • Servicer advances 'attractive' despite headline risk

    Ocwen and HLSS last week announced that they will restate their financial statements for 2013 and 1Q...

    News    19 August 2014
  • SCI Start the Week - 18 August

    A look at the major activity in structured finance over the past seven days

    PipelineOnly a handful of deals joined the pipeline last week amid the summer lull. Of these transac...

    News    18 August 2014
  • Servicing 'hubs' identified

    The top seven cities for US commercial servicing operations are Kansas City, Charlotte, Dallas, Miam...

    News Round-up    15 August 2014
  • RFC issued on servicer advance approach

    S&P is requesting comments on proposed changes to the methodology and assumptions it uses to...

    News Round-up    15 August 2014
  • RFC issued on RMBS update

    Moody's is requesting feedback on a proposed update to its approach to rating US prime RMBS. A new v...

    News Round-up    14 August 2014
  • Backing away

    Canadian government reducing RMBS role

    Private RMBS has traditionally only constituted a small part of Canadian residential mortgage fundin...

    News Analysis    14 August 2014
  • Further capital charge reductions for Solvency 2

    Fitch reports that under the latest revisions to Solvency 2, capital charges for type 1 securitisati...

    News Round-up    14 August 2014
  • Euro markets unexpectedly busy

    Weakness in the broader financial markets brought volatility to the European ABS sector last week. A...

    Market Reports    13 August 2014
  • RFC issued on single GSE security

    The FHFA has released a request for input on the proposed structure for a single security that would...

    News Round-up    13 August 2014
  • Rates impact weighed

    With FN 4.5s prices nearing their all-time highs, the US agency RMBS sector appears to be at a tippi...

    News    12 August 2014
  • RMBS activity centres on seniors

    It was a fairly quiet session across the board yesterday, although US non-agency RMBS bid-list suppl...

    Market Reports    12 August 2014
  • BBVA distressed loans understated

    Fitch has downgraded 10 and affirmed three tranches from three BBVA RMBS deals, after it found that...

    News Round-up    12 August 2014
  • RFC issued on RPL approach

    Fitch is inviting feedback on its approach for rating RMBS backed by re-performing loan (RPL) collat...

    News Round-up    12 August 2014
  • Association urges PLS support

    SIFMA has responded to a request for comment from the US Treasury on the development of a functionin...

    News Round-up    11 August 2014
  • SFIG proposal 'positive' for RMBS

    SFIG's proposal to increase standardisation and transparency in the US RMBS market (SCI 7 August) is...

    News Round-up    8 August 2014
  • Volatility weighs on hedge fund performance

    Aggregate hedge fund performance was negative at -0.35% in July, the industry's fourth down month of...

    News Round-up    8 August 2014