RMBS

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.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman today filed a lawsuit against Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo charging that using Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems' (MERS) electronic mortgage registry has resulted in a wide range of deceptive and fraudulent foreclosure filings in New York state and federal courts.

Assured Guaranty has filed a lawsuit against UBS' real estate securities unit over breach of contract claims.

Interactive Mortgage Advisors (IMA) Denver, is selling a $589 million portfolio of residential servicing rights backed by Fannie Mae and Ginnie Mae mortgages.

It appears that possible salary and bonus caps at the GSEs are not hurting the recruiting efforts of at least Fannie Mae.

Risk appetite in the U.S. triparty repo market is slowly returning, according to Fitch Ratings in a report released today.