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Pacifica Companies said it has selected BSI Financial two service two of its securitizations, real estate asset trust 2013-1 and asset-backed notes series 2013-1.

There are a number of possible ways for the Federal Reserve to unwind its mortgage-backed securities purchases, but reverse repurchase sales would be outcome, according to a panelits at the Mortgage Bankers Association's National Secondary Market Conference Wednesday.

Shellpoint Partners said its shelf registration initially filed with Securities and Exchange Commission last October, was declared effective today.

New Oak Capital on Monday announced its new Mortgage Credit Service business that will be based in Danbury, CT.

A global settlement between MBIA and Bank of America is positive for MBIA-wrapped non-agency mortgage-backed securities, according to Barclays.

Bank of America has agreed to pay the bond insurer MBIA $1.6 billion to settle a five-year-old dispute over losses related to soured mortgage-backed securities.

Big players remain largely absent from the re-emerging private-label residential mortgage-backed securities market.

A common securitization platform is under "full scale development" and should be ready for "significant testing" by next year, spokesmen for the government-sponsored housing enterprises said.

Having recently been approved to underwrite mortgage-backed securities, W.J. Bradley Financial Services is planning to do just that, according to President Kent Usell.