SIFMA Supports Effort to Reduce Securities Fails, Recommends a Number of Additional Improvements
June 24, 2011
The securitization industry is largely supportive of fails-charge recommendations by the Treasury Markets Practice Group to help reduce fails in the agency debt securities and agency MBS markets, but did offer a number of constructive considerations for the group to review. The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association told the TMPG, an advisory group of market representatives sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, that its members share concerns about elevated levels of settlement fails in MBS markets, which the TMPG is trying to address in the recommendations it released in late April. SIFMA members agree that...