RMBS

PHH Corp. named Smriti Laxman Popenoe, executive vice president and chief risk officer at the firm, as interim president for PHH Mortgage.

National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) said Monday morning it will receive $5.25 million from HSBC for settling claims related to MBS it sold to five failed corporate credit unions.

For deals serviced by Wells Fargo, Ally Financial, and Citibank on private-label loans, the mortgage settlement's impact will likely be fairly negligible.

More than a month after federal and state officials announced a massive $25 billion settlement with the five mortgage servicers, the Justice Department on Monday finally released the actual legal document.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) said that the Securities and Exchange Commission has approved its application to operate a new central counterparty (CCP) to limit MBS-related risk and costs.

The rate of improvement for U.S. subprime RMBS has slowed down, according to Fitch Ratings.

The European structured finance market has seen a rise in the ratio of deals sold to investors over those that are retained, according to analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

The Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Housing and Urban Development, along with 49 state attorneys general, filed their joint $25 billion agreement with the nation's five largest mortgage servicers in court Monday.

Amherst Securities Group (ASG) examined the historical performance of the non-agency market throughout the housing crisis in a report published late Friday.

Agency MBS certainly dominate the market today in many respects, but as one aspect of the recent strategic plan for the GSEs highlights, the private-label market can be considered ahead of them in terms of loan-level disclosure and it is time for that to change.