RMBS

Ongoing litigation may clarify on the responsibilities of trustees in residential mortgage backed securities, but market participants aren't waiting around to find out.

Credit Suisse issuing $407.123 million residental mortgage-backed securitization. Standard and Poor's assigned ratings to the deal called CSMC Trust 2013-IVR4.

Could higher yields end up deepening the investor base for asset-backeds?

Shellpoint Partners LLC, the home lender founded by mortgage-bond pioneer Lewis Ranieri, priced its first securitization after restructuring the senior tranche on the back of investor requests.

Ongoing litigation may clarify on the responsibilities of trustees in residential mortgage backed securities, but market participants aren't waiting around to find out.

Regulators have been trying to price Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of their dominant shares of the secondary market for home loans. After a pair of giant price increases, the strategy may soon bear fruit.

Roughly in step with other markets, structured finance pricing and issuance in June was governed by questions of how quickly the Federal Reserve would rein in its asset-buying spree.

The trend of U.S. banks shifting their subprime mortgage servicing rights to non-bank, specialist servicers looks set to continue, according to a Fitch Ratings report.

Wall Street thinks it has a found a solution to jumpstart the dormant market for private-label mortgage-backed securities: bring a third-party reviewer to determine who is on the hook for bad loans.

Leeds Building Society plans to issue the next investor-placed U.K. RMBS; but issuance in this once dominant sector of securitizations continues to fall below recent years as banks find cheaper funding with the Bank of England’s funding for lending scheme.