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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.

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.

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.

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.