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The American Securitization Forum (ASF) released its detailed agenda for its ASF 2011 conference that will be held in Orlando, Florida from Feb. 6-9.
January 25 -
The U.S. Treasury released details on the legacy securities public-private investment program (PPIP) capital activity.
January 25 -
Martin Fingerhut, previously a partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon's (Blakes) financial services group and chair of the law firm's structured finance group, is moving to Cassels Brock & Blackwell, another Canadian law firm based in Toronto. Fingerhut was hired as a senior partner and head of the firm's securitization group.
January 24 -
The CMBS market is getting a boost with the return of mezzanine investors that will purchase some of the riskiest pieces of securitizations or commercial real estate loans.
January 24 -
CMBS special servicers are working out underperforming mortgages at an increasingly faster pace. However, these companies are still fighting an "uphill battle" this year, Fitch Ratings analysts said in a report released today.
January 21 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a fact sheet this morning on a rule requiring ABS issuers to disclose the history of both the requests they received and repurchases they made related to their ABS outstanding.
January 20 -
Standard & Poor's put 1,981 structured finance tranches in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) on creditwatch negative yesterday as a result of the revision of its counterparty criteria.
January 19 -
The secondary market for real estate loans is active despite a dearth of new origination for both the commercial and residential markets.
January 18 -
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) will not exercise its authority under the Dodd-Frank Act to reclaim or recover assets transferred by a financial company into a securitization, said FDIC acting FDIC General Counsel, Michael Krimminger in a letter to the industry.
January 18 -
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) introduced its new CMBS Conduit Credit Monitor this month, which details delinquency rates, default and loss balances as well as severities for the fixed-rate conduit CMBS universe.
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