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With the Dodd-Frank Act and Basel capital regime already imposing new requirements on derivatives players, the U.S. bank regulators added another one Tuesday completely of their own accord.

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is considering tightening borrowers' debt-to-income ratios, a move that would prevent the most highly leveraged consumers from qualifying to buy a home.

Brokerage firm Laeken International plans to enhance its fixed-income and structured finance products focus by establishing a structured finance strategy and analytics team.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts in a report released yesterday referred to Markit’s iBoxx European ABS index as a “useful tool” in benchmarking and in comparing ABS to other asset classes.

When Bank of America Corp. announced its MBS settlement last week, the company warned that activist investors would likely fight it. It was right.

When asked about the still-struggling nonagency market might return, some market participants in New York for the Mortgage Bankers Association’s National Secondary Market Conference even took on the controversial question of whether a subprime credit secondary market should come back some day.

The Private National Mortgage Acceptance Corp. plans to make a big splash in warehouse lending and late this week unveiled who will lead the effort -- Paul Szymanski, once a top warehouse executive at the number one player in that niche: Bank of America.

No matter your opinion of Sheila Bair, you always know where she stands.

Lombard Risk Management, which offers integrated collateral management, liquidity and regulatory reporting solutions, launched its COREP/Basel III solution using the new Web-based version of its regulatory compliance software suite.

Greece events remained a dominant influence on the markets this week, although it turned out to be the reverse of last week.