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While the $1.9 billion of bonds are not guaranteed by the government, most of the underlying loans could have been sold to Fannie and Freddie, and the transaction accomplishes the same thing as the GSEs' risk-transfer deals.

J.P. Morgan Chase is preparing one of the largest private label mortgage securitizations since the financial crisis. It is backed by a pool of over 6,000 loans totaling nearly $1.9 billion.

A well-seasoned collection of £470.3 million in prime “buy-to-let” residential mortgages is being securitized by the UK’s third-largest building society.

Investors continue to demand additional compensation for taking on the credit risk of mortgages insured by Freddie Mac.

The bust in oil prices has jeopardized local economies in heavy oil-sector regions of the country. Might the volatility do the same to mortgage-backed securities, should massive layoffs in the industry give rise to a surge of homeowner defaults in energy production centers? Standard & Poor’s thinks not.

Two Harbors Investment Corp.'s next offering of residential mortgages bonds has a new kind of risk: some of the loans failed to comply, at least initially, with new "know before you owe" disclosure rules.

The Securities and Exchange Commissioner took to the podium in the convention center of the Aria Resort & Casino to express to attendees his admiration for the economic benefits of securitization – and his disagreement with the risk-retention regulatory regime that has enveloped it.

OneSavingBank is readying a £403.2 million securitization of U.K. residential mortgages originated at the peak of the U.K. housing crisis, according to DBRS.

Freddie Mac has expanded the amount of loan-level data it discloses about mortgages it insures in an effort to boost appetite for reinsurance.

After imposing a virtual moratorium on adding new issuers, Ginnie Mae is again accepting applications from mortgage companies seeking to pool loans for securitization and servicing.