The volume of new mortgage securities issuance remained at historically high levels in 2006, but the pace clearly slowed from the previous year, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis. For the year just concluded, a total of... [Includes two charts]
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The outlook for the mortgage-backed securities market looks strong for 2007. So does the environment for similar investment vehicles such as collateralized debt obligations and collateralized mortgage obligations. The market for mortgage securities is so strong that...
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The Treasury Department last week provided relief from a pending regulation that would have imposed a significant tax reporting burden on Ginnie Mae issuers by carving out a temporary safe harbor for widely held mortgage trusts, and delaying some enforcement until 2008...
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A year after its implementation, securities market participants are still grappling with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulation AB. At the end of December, three industry groups warned the SEC that Reg AB is producing unintended consequences in the...
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Fannie Mae recently issued new guidelines for servicers, in an effort to better align its rules with current practices. The changes were detailed at the end of December with the release of the government sponsored enterprise’s new MBS Master Trust Agreement...
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Issuance of collateralized mortgage obligations and REMICs backed by agency pass-throughs slumped in the late going of 2006, ending the year with the lowest annual production level since 2000, according to a new analysis by Inside MBS & ABS... [Includes two charts and one graph]
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Mortgage securitizers may feel the most impact from a federal interagency proposal to adjust the current risk weight categories for various mortgage-related credit exposures for adoption by non-Basel II depository institutions, according to a Federal Reserve Board...
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