Finance

A proposal by regulators to revamp the way banks must measure risk on certain assets is alarming many community bankers who argue it will raise capital requirements, increase compliance costs and curb lending.

Dutch house prices are expected to fall by at least another 7% on the back of a deteriorating macro-economic environment, said Fitch Ratings in a report today.

Moody’s Investors Service's downgrade of Spain may have deepened the European debt crisis, but it isn't indicative of the performance securitized deals in this or other peripheral states.

Players in the asset-backed commercial paper market have learned their lessons from the financial crisis and are ready to apply them in the wake of bank downgrades by Moody's Investors Service.

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) President and CEO, Tim Ryan said on Bloomberg TV that financial regulatory reform has added more complexity to the already difficult financial institution world.

Structured finance investors would prefer to rely on fewer sources of pricing for tracking deals, according to 107 investors in the industry surveyed by Principia Partners.

Industry groups asked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Wednesday to convene a panel to review the potential effects of new mortgage lending standards on small businesses.

Shenkman Capital Management is in the market with its first collateralized loan obligation since the financial crisis.

Moody’s Investors Service real price Commercial Property Price Indices (CPPI) showed that U.S .commercial real estate prices fell by 0.6% in April.

Last week's sell-off moved fixed mortgage rates from their record lows set during the week ending June 7.

The European DataWarehouse came in for some criticism at Information Management Network’s and Association for Financial Markets in Europe’s Global ABS 2012 conference, which is being held in Brussels this week.

There has been strong investor interest in the secondary and primary markets for European auto securitizations, according to panelists at the Global ABS 2012 conference being held in Brussels this week by Information Management Network and the Association for Financial Markets in Europe.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York today moved ahead with its planned auction of $1.9 billion from its Maiden Lane III portfolio that include assets from the Altius I and Altius II CDOs.

SunTrust Mortgage has named two new executive presidents, hiring industry veterans from PNC Mortgage and IBM Corp.

Fannie Mae, which boasts a “credit enhanced” delinquency rate of roughly 8% on its guaranteed loans, is moving closer to launching a pilot program to dispose of some of its nonperforming loans, according to industry advisors familiar with the GSE’s plans.

Standard & Poor's this week reaffirmed Clayton Holdings as a third party due diligence provider for RMBS after the rating agency completed its annual review of the company.

Maureen Stewart joined NewOak Capital as managing director of mortgage credit and compliance services, where she will help establish an “integrated, expert-driven mortgage credit advisory services platform.”

Paramount Residential Mortgage said it has hired former Caliber Funding official Dave Pilotte as its new wholesale manager in charge of the Inland Valley area and Southern California.

Expectations for an effort to rebrand Europe’s securitization industry, making it more acceptable to regulators and investors, are decidedly mixed.