ASR News Update

January 29, 2014 5:01 PM

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This week's ASR newscast covers the most recent CLO to comply with Volcker; Scott Brown's hire at Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers; and the labor & promise of trade finance securitization.

Emerging markets

Career moves

TRENDING

Home equity loans

Wold joins Hometap to lead U.S. structured products business

Formerly of Wells Fargo, she will coordinate several key units to create a structure for a sustained capital markets program that capitalizes on recent innovation and growth in home equity finance.

By Donna M. Mitchell

April 17
MBS

Freddie Mac's home equity product proposal stokes mixed early reactions

The Structured Finance Association questions whether funding closed-end seconds is an appropriate role for the government-sponsored enterprise, while newer lenders welcome the liquidity support.

By Donna M. Mitchell

April 17
Regulation and compliance

CFPB makes structural changes after expanding authority over nonbanks

The CFPB has dissolved the Office of Supervision, Enforcement and Fair Lending and eliminated the job of associate director in a move that impacts how it designates nonbanks for supervision.

By Kate Berry

April 17