Moody’s Says Covered Bond Legislation Will Protect Investors But Fails to Address Market Value Risk
August 6, 2010
Holders of covered bonds in the United States stand to gain from the investor protection provisions of legislation that recently passed the House Financial Services Committee, but they would face some market value volatility and have to contend with different standards for different kinds of issuers. That’s the gist of a Moody’s Investors Service overview of the bill, H.R. 5823, the United States...