RMBS

After last year’s false start, the GSEs plan to introduce risk-sharing bonds this year.

Do not expect much securitization activity out of Europe this year, said participants in a panel at the American Securitization Forum’s 2013 conference.

The U.S. housing market and consumer are looking much healthier and there are reasons to believe they will only get stronger.

Regulators risk stifling a recovery in the securitization market if they subject privately offered securities to the same disclosure and reporting requirements as public offerings.

Stonegate Mortgage Corporation, hired Eric Scholtz as executive vice president of structured finance.

A New Haven federal grand jury has accused former Jefferies RMBS trader, Jesse Litvak with engaging in a scheme to defraud customers on residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) trades.

There’s been a lot of talk about the REO-to-rental market over the past year, but no clear indication of how securitization can play a role. That was the case as well at a break out session of the American Securitization Forum’s conference.

Participants on a panel at the ASF’s 2013 conference said the major stumbling block remains uncertainty about what would happen to covered bondholders in the event of a troubled issuing bank going into receivership.

In marked contrast to recent years, speakers at the first major panel of the day sounded some fairly upbeat notes.

In the keynote address of the American Securitization Forums 2013 conference, Thomas Curry, comptroller of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, stressed the progress that the housing market has made.