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Refinancing and purchase activity rose in the week ending June 11 as 30-year fixed mortgage rates declined to the low 4.70s on Freddie Mac's survey. The Mortgage Bankers Association reported that the Refinance Index jumped 21.1% to ~3462 - its highest level since May 2009.

The second day of Information Management Network’s Global ABS 2010 conference started with a panel that looked back at the financial crisis.

Speakers at Information Management Network’s Global ABS 2010 discussed what it would take to rebuild the European ABS market and the factors hindering it from coming back at a panel called Restoring Confidence and Rebuilding the Industry: The Role of Securitization.

Responding to the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) proposed changes to Reg AB for ABS, BNY Mellon introduced new modeling and reporting capabilities.

By now you've seen the stories and heard the industry chatter about how the nonperforming loan market is humming along like a well-oiled Toyota, which might be an apt metaphor since the Japanese carmaker has a good reputation but its models keep breaking down.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has once again pushed back the auction deadline on the $23 billion AmTrust servicing portfolio, ASR's sister publication National Mortgage News has learned.

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have selected Veros Real Estate Solutions as a technology vendor for their Uniform Collateral Data Portal (UCDP).

The performance of Portuguese residential mortgage-backed securities was mixed in April, according to a report from Moody's Investors Service.

Securitization market participants appear to be unified on eight issues related to risk retention proposals and split on two, according to a draft report by a group that represents both the "buy" and "sell" side of trades.

The former regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said nationalizing the troubled GSEs is a bad idea, declaring that all government insurance programs are slated to fail.