Douglas Charleston joined TwentyFour Asset Management last month as a portfolio manager. He has seve...

Moody's notes in its latest Structured Thinking Asia Pacific publication that a number of Australian...

Bank of America has disclosed in an SEC quarterly filing that the US Department of Justice and other...

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

Pipeline Three CMBS remained in the pipeline at the end of last week. The transactions comprised: U...

Risk-sharing programme to aid RMBS price discovery

Freddie Mac upsized and priced its inaugural risk-sharing transaction last week (SCI 17 July). The s...

Investors, issuers adapting to swap-related dilemmas

Given the difficulty of replacing counterparties and expense of posting collateral for cashflow secu...

National Mortgage Insurance Corporation has agreed to insure approximately US$5bn in residential mor...

Fitch has introduced property price indexation to its Australian RMBS criteria, assessing indexed pr...

Ocwen's acquisition of the servicing portfolio of GMAC Mortgage is said to be credit negative for re...

Improving collateral pool performance has led to an increase in Moody's principal recovery estimates...

SIFMA says it strongly opposes the City of Richmond, California's notification of 32 trustees and se...

Fitch has affirmed and subsequently withdrawn the ratings of Ballantyne Re's class A1 (double-C), B1...

Western Asset has recruited Anup Agarwal as head of structured products, based in Pasadena. He has 1...

The US housing recovery will help to cut losses on RMBS mortgage pools in existing transactions, but...

S&P has downgraded 181 tranches in 62 European RMBS transactions, following the lowering of...

S&P anticipates that house prices will keep falling in most European markets this year, as t...