Bank of America Corp. sold defective residential mortgage loans to the GSEs that later defaulted, the U.S. government said in a $1 billion fraud lawsuit against the bank.
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Morgan Stanley and Bank of America priced its $1.23 billion commercial mortgage-backed securitization conduit, series 2013-C7 at strong levels.
January 9 -
The Minnesota Housing Finance Agency's $75 million of tax-exempt homeownership finance bonds mark its third use of a mortgage-backed pass-through structure that’s helped jumpstart new-money, tax-exempt borrowing for single-family housing.
January 9 -
Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation upsized its prime auto receivables securitization deal yesterday to $1.36 billion from $1billion, on the back of strong investor demand.
January 9 -
Timothy Ryan is stepping down as president and chief executive of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association next month, the trade association said Tuesday.
January 9 -
Capacity constraints at mortgage lenders that limited the amount of refinancings they could process in November, meant business was held over into December resulting in prepayment speeds being unexpectedly higher last month.
January 8
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Standard & Poor’s assigned ‘BBB+’ and ‘BB+’ ratings to the class A and B notes to be issued by Aetna’s Vitality Re IV Ltd. (Series 2013-1), a medical benefit linked securitization deal.
January 8 -
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's qualified mortgage regulation will provide more clarity to the definition of a qualified residential mortgage as proposed under Dodd-Frank legislation, said analysts at Fitch Ratings.
January 8 -
Ally Financial Inc. is marketing it $940 million subprime auto deal called Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-1, bringing the January pipeline for auto ABS to $3.2 billion.
January 8 -
Moody’s Investors Service, Kroll Bond Ratings and Fitch ratings have assigned Aaa'/'AAA'/'AAA' ratings respectively to the class A notes issued by Redwood Trust’s RMBS.
January 8 -
Wells Fargo, JP Morgan and Bank of America began marketing a $600 million single asset commercial mortgage-backed securitization backed by the Queens Center in New York City.
January 7 -
The December FOMC minutes have cause doubts of whether the Fed will tweak asset purchases under QE3 but analysts at Barclays said MBS purchases are likely to stay the same.
January 7 -
Standard & Poor’s said Monday that the pipeline for structured finance issuance has hit $3.4 billion.
January 7