The technical committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a consultation report called Credit Rating Agencies: Internal Controls Designed to Ensure the Integrity of the Credit Rating Process and Procedures to Manage Conflicts of Interest.

The Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBs) stopped purchasing private-label MBS in 2008, but losses on those bad investments have been a major drag on earnings ever since. But that may be changing.

In a recent presentation to investors Fortress Investment Group estimated that $4 trillion in mortgage servicing rights may change hands over the next few years, but MSR investors and others say that estimate is much too high.

The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday released the last details of how two mortgage servicers — Citigroup and HSBC Finance Corp. — plan to fix problems in their home loan servicing and foreclosure processes.

Key senators signaled guarded optimism Thursday about the chances of finding a bipartisan compromise on mortgage refinancing legislation, though the bill still faces an uphill fight in the House.

Bond insurer MBIA’s chief attorney told a judge Thursday that the process the New York State Insurance Department (NYSID) and MBIA took to split the company was long and public.

Golub Capital Partners has priced a $411 million collateralized loan obligation backed by broadly syndicated loans, according to a report by Standard & Poor’s.

American International Group had some of the claims in its $10.5 billion suit against Countrywide Financial Corp. thrown out of court because they were filed too late.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said today that Citigroup had won the latest bidding process for another portion of the Maiden Lane III portfolio.

Residential Capital's bankruptcy filing on May 14 is a credit negative for two major bond insurers, Moody’s Investors Service said.

Chariot Funding LLC and Jupiter Securitization Co. LLC financed a £750 million ($1 billion) consumer loan facility.