RMBS

Loan data verification company IMARC has hired Lisa Binkley as senior director of product design and business development.

After a yearlong effort to reach a multistate settlement with the top five mortgage servicers, state attorneys general and the firms involved finally appear to be close to a deal.

Two new covered bonds from peripheral Eurozone issuers priced last week. The Italian Lender, Intesa San Paolo issued a €1.5 billion ($1.96 billion), 1.5-year unsecured bond at 295 basis points over mid swaps.

A House Financial Services subcommittee is slated to mark up a Federal Housing Administration (FHA) reform bill Tuesday that establishes a minimum annual mortgage insurance premium and extends the agency's indemnification requirements to all approved lenders.

Lloyds Bank has priced its U.K. RMBS deal from the bank's Arkle master trust.

The California Attorney General has returned to the 'robo-signing' talks after a four-month absence to possibly take part in a multi-state settlement with the nation's largest residential servicers, according to combined press reports early Monday morning.

Barbara Desoer, the president of Bank of America's home loans division who was once considered a possible successor to former Chief Executive Ken Lewis, will retire at the end of February, BofA said Friday.

Federal banking agencies seem to be making little progress in promulgating regulations that will set the ground rules for a revival of the private-label MBS market.

The Federal Reserve and the Obama administration have put the continued poor state of the housing market front and center on their agendas in the first month of 2012 and now into early February.