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The Federal Reserve should slow its purchases of agency MBS so that it can extend the buying program into next year, according to one MBS market expert.

HOPE NOW's July data estimates that 1.77 million homeowners received workout solutions to avoid foreclosure since January

Hannover Re placed a facultative risk portfolio as part of its extended Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) activities.

Triple-A investors are increasingly turning to resecuritizations as a technique to partially hedge against the risk of ratings downgrades in their triple-A holdings, said Moody’s Investors Service analysts.

Citigroup said Monday afternoon that it sold three credit card portfolios representing about $1.3 billion of managed assets from Citi Holdings, its dumping ground for unwanted assets.

A Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) release Monday featured tips for consumers on navigating new credit card and mortgage rules, and how best to utilize bank reward programs.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC)-insured banks had to buy back $1.9 billion of defaulted mortgages during the second quarter after facing heavy repurchase demands from investors during the first and fourth quarters.

After loosing $4.7 billion from client redemptions, Cerberus Capital Management is looking to raise money for a fund that would invest in distressed debt in hopes of boosting returns for investors, according to Bloomberg.

Fifth Street Finance has hired a former managing director at Churchill Financial to help with the White Plains, N.Y. investment firm’s loan origination business.

The nation's beleaguered mortgage insurance companies wrote $7.54 billion of new traditional MI policies in July, its third worst volume month of the year.

Despite the rise in used vehicle values for the seventh straight month in July, this did not stop prime losses from rising to 20% above the 2008 level, Fitch Ratings said in a report.

Chadbourne & Parke hired Alper Deniz as a partner for its bankruptcy and financial restructuring practice in the firm's London office.

Japanese bank Nomura hired three former Lehman Brothers executives for its fixed-income group in New York, Leveraged Finance News has confirmed. The move is part of the bank’s efforts to expand its fixed income group.

The fair value of loans held by the nation's biggest banks continues to decline, indicating that credit markets have not yet turned around and raising serious questions about the effectiveness of the government's efforts to help the industry through the credit crisis.

Natixis announced that it will receive a guarantee from its parent BPCE, covering about €35 billion($50.2 billion) of its most risky segregated assets.

Nixon Peabody hired Ali Yenal as senior associate in its global finance practice and will be based in the New York City.

New Mexico Education Assistance Foundation is in the market with a FFELP-backed deal. The $299 million student loan ABS transaction is led by RBC Capital Markets.

The performance of home-equity lines of credit took a turn for the better in the second quarter as delinquency rates dropped but net charge-offs spiked up 30%.

Deutsche Bank Securities is the largest unsecured creditor of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker (TBW) and is owed at least $42 million, according to a supplemental filing in the bankruptcy case of the nonbank lender.

Fannie Mae's issuance of MBS fell 39% in July from the previous month, according to the company's new monthly activity report.