With both refinancing and purchase activity lower, mortgage application activity declined 5.0% in the week ending Jan. 20.
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The Treasury Department said Wednesday it is selling $6 billion of its common stock in American International Group (AIG), half of which AIG intends to buy itself at the initial public offering price.
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General Electric Capital Corp. (GE) is going to issue under its GE Equipment Transportation LLC, Series 2012-1. The deal will be sized at $716.5 million, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing on the offering.
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Walter Investment Management Corp. (WIM) lost $4 million in the fourth quarter and $69 million for the year because of costs tied to its purchase of Green Tree Servicing, St. Paul, Minn.
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The 9.37% CMBS delinquency rate in February was lower both sequentially and compared to year-ago monthly figures by Trepp's measure.
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Investment bank North Sea Partners has hired Steve Paras as managing director and head of European capital markets.
March 7
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Standard & Poor's has appointed Michelle Weston as regional practice leader for structured finance ratings in EMEA.
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In a regulatory filing today, Ally Bank has upsized its previously $1 billion auto ABS to $1.7 billion. The deal is rated by Fitch Ratings and Moody's Investors Service.
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Proposed changes to the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD IV) – which is the European Union's mechanism for implementing Basel III into law – could cause banks' capital requirements to be diluted.
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Judicial Watch has sued the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), claiming that the agency wrongfully denied a request for documents related to a lawsuit over alleged misrepresentations of MBS.
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Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen, P.C. has hired Howard Mulligan as of counsel in the corporate department.
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After peaking at 4538 for 2012, refinancing activity has declined for three straight weeks as mortgage rates remained above record lows.
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Conventional 30-year prepayments increased around 12% versus an expected 6%-7%.
March 7