The securitization market, which last year turned a potentially scary downturn in the key subprime mortgage business into a burgeoning new derivatives trading business, wheeled into 2007 with expectations of increased stability and new opportunities.With...
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The long-anticipated slowdown in housing markets finally arrived in 2006, but industry experts say the impact on mortgage lending and securitization will be fairly mild. There are some signs that housing may be in the early stages of recovery, said Calvin Schnure...
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Fannie Mae hopes to build on last year’s business momentum by securitizing more types of mortgages, while pricing more competitively, according to Fannie President and CEO Dan Mudd. Speaking at a Citigroup financial services conference in New York City this week, Mudd said...
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Countrywide was named sponsor on more non-agency MBS in 2006 than any other company in the market, according to a new ranking based on the Inside Mortgage Finance MBS Database. The California-based mortgage company sponsored some $106.5 billion... [Includes two charts]
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Under pressure to explain why recent subprime MBS are performing worse than earlier vintages, the rating services acknowledge that they have to cope with a measure of deception from some issuers. At the American Securitization Forum’s ASF 2007 conference...
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Investors and issuers of residential MBS will be getting more active this year in monitoring securities backed by subprime mortgages, as well as subprime loan purchases, for any potential problems arising from poor underwriting, according to subprime market players...
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Issuance of commercial mortgage-backed securities soared to record highs to close out the fourth quarter of 2006, besting previous yearly and quarterly marks. CMBS issuance hit $225.69 billion in 2006, 27 percent above 2005’s previous record... [Includes two charts]
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Is Onity Group eyeing a sale? Perhaps. And why not? Servicing values are approaching a 25-year high.
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