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Home Partners of America is marketing its second securitization of single-family rental properties.

The U.K. government will redeem £3 billion ($3.9 billion) of bonds backed by mortgages from rescued lender Bradford & Bingley, paving the way for a potential sale of the loans

Patrick Tadie has been promoted to division manager of Wilmington Trust’s capital markets structured finance group.

U.S. Bank Global Corporate Trust Services has hired Joe Nardi to lead its global structured finance group, which provides services that support the mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities for which U.S. Bank is trustee and paying agent.

Lenders, realtors, and appraisers are stepping up the fight against a particular way of financing the retrofitting of homes to make them more energy efficient.

Arch U.S. MI's acquisition of United Guaranty Corp. will make one of the smallest private mortgage insurers the sector's new market leader. While the move is likely to ease pricing competition among the six remaining players, it's not expected to set off a wave of further consolidation.

JPMorgan is taking a riskier route for its second jumbo prime mortgage loan securitization of 2016. Unlike the bank’s securitization of nonconforming fixed-rate loans in June, the assets backing the $434.1 million JPMMT 2016-2 transaction are exclusively adjusted rate mortgages. They also include a cross-section of loans not meeting qualified mortgage/ability-to-repay safe harbor protections.

American International Group agreed to sell mortgage insurer United Guaranty Corp. to Arch Capital Group as Chief Executive Peter Hancock works to simplify his company and free up capital to return to shareholders

The ratings agency raised its rankings of Ocwen as a residential mortgage prime, subprime, special and subordinate-lien servicer to average from below average, S&P said in a news release Tuesday. Similarly, Ocwen's rankings as a commercial mortgage special servicer and a small-balance commercial mortgage primary and special servicer were raised to average from below average.

Mill City Holdings, which was recently assigned ownership interests in a pair of CarVal Investors’ re-performing mortgage securitizations from 2015, is preparing a third deal involving formerly delinquent and defaulted mortgages. Mill City Mortgage Loan Trust 2016-1 is a transaction of a portfolio of 1,986 distressed or re-performing mortgages.