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See results from the Mortgage Bankers Association's Refinance and Purchase Indexes for the week ended March 20 as well as the weekly mortgage rates surveyed by Freddie Mac for the week ended March 21.

Longstanding tensions within the American Securitization Forum (ASF) boiled over in March, when most of its board of directors resigned and formed a new trade group.

A relatively weak framework of representations and warranties in a $616-million residential mortgage-backed security from JP Morgan injected fresh fuel into a discussion that’s been running for several weeks

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By tweaking one aspect of its methodology for rating securitizations, Moody’s Investors Service has set the stage for more downgrades of deals issued out of peripheral Eurozone countries.

Federal Housing Finance Agency Acting Director Edward DeMarco said a single mbs platform could be a building block for a new mortgage market

Buyers of private-label mortgage backed securities still have a beef with the federal mortgage modification plan, which allows holders of a second-lien on distressed properties to jump ahead of first-lien holders in terms of payment priority.

Banks are expected to start buying riskier portions of collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) in response to a deposit-insurance rule change that takes effect this month.

With consumer spending on the rise and investors warming to more esoteric assets, timeshare operators are increasingly turning to the securitization market to finance loans.

As banks exit mortgage servicing, new players are turning to