Moodys: Easing Standards Driving Up Securitization Risk Following Post-Financial Crisis Low Levels
March 23, 2012
Moodys Investors Service is cautioning that the securitization market is again seeing elevated levels of risk, though not as bad as the go-go days before the 2008 bubble burst. In a report issued last week, Moodys cited relaxed underwriting standards, more complex structures and the entrance of untested market participants over the last two years as signs of credit easing in a number of asset classes, including autos, credit cards, and commercial and residential property. This reversion is not unusual for this phase of the credit cycle, when providers of credit typically start to relax standards...