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Issuers and investors involved in the securitization market are pushing the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision to revise its proposed capital standards for “simple, transparent and comparable” securitization. The BCBS issued a proposal in November and the comment period closed this month. The Structured Finance Industry Group reiterated concerns about international regulatory efforts that will create a “patchwork” of standards and limit securitization, while others pushed back on the exclusion of synthetic transactions from the proposed criteria for STC transactions. “We continue...