Securitization
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Blast From the Past: Fannie, Freddie, and the Fed
The Federal Reserve said this week it will no longer buy mortgage backed securities from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Some people worry mortgage rates could rise as a result. …
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Libor’s End Leaves Nearly $2 Trillion of Debt Facing Legal Limbo
By William Shaw and Alex Harris
March 22, 2021, Bloomberg
Almost $2 trillion of debt pegged to dollar Libor, much of which can’t easily be shifted to an alternative benchmark, …
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Bank of England Tightens Libor Loan Transitioning Screw as Deadline Looms
By Alice Tchernookova
March 1, 2021, Practice Insight from IFLR
The UK authorities have published a series of documents on loan transitioning, aiming to get all market participants on the …
EU Adopts Rules to Help Cos. Reach Funds During Pandemic
By Najiyya Budaly
February 16, 2021, Law360
European Union member states have pushed through amendments to the bloc’s capital markets rules in a move to help businesses raise money on …
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Big U.S. Banks’ Government-Backed MBS Holdings Hit Record High
By Shahien Nasiripour
February 16, 2021, Bloomberg
The largest U.S. banks increased their holdings of federally-backed mortgage securities by about $7 billion during the first week of February, raising their …
Libor Exit to Cost Global Banks $100 Million Each This Year
By William Shaw and Donal Griffin
February 5, 2021, Bloomberg
Most major global banks will spend more than $100 million each this year preparing for the end of the discredited …
Fannie, Freddie Should Hold $280 Billion in Capital, FHFA Says
By Andrew Ackerman
November 18, 2020, The Wall Street Journal
Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will have to hold hundreds of billions of dollars of capital to absorb …
A $50 Billion Housing Bond Market Is Stuck in Regulatory Limbo
By Joe Light and Christopher Maloney
October 26, 2020, Bloomberg
A $50 billion bond market once heralded as the future of housing finance has been stuck in limbo since the …
Where Trump and Biden Stand on Mortgage Finance
By Andrew Ackerman
October 8, 2020, The Wall Street Journal
Donald Trump and Joe Biden have divergent views on the federal government’s role in the $11 trillion mortgage market, with …
Fannie, Freddie to face banklike liquidity standards starting Sept. 1
By Hannah Lang
July 31, 2020, American Banker
The Federal Housing Finance Agency quietly imposed new liquidity requirements on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in June that will require the …
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MiFID II Review to Look at Systematic Internalizers
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Blast From the Past: EU Tells Traders Working From Home: Take Notes if You Can’t Record Calls
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Blast From the Past: EU Watchdog to Nudge Bond Trades Closer to Real-Time Transparency
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Blast From the Past: Traders Across Europe Face Up to the Cost of Failure
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Blast From the Past: Passive Investing Boom Reaches Europe as Assets Hit $1 Trillion
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MiFID II Review to Look at Systematic Internalizers
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Blast From the Past: EU Tells Traders Working From Home: Take Notes if You Can’t Record Calls
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Blast From the Past: EU Watchdog to Nudge Bond Trades Closer to Real-Time Transparency
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Blast From the Past: Traders Across Europe Face Up to the Cost of Failure
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Blast From the Past: Passive Investing Boom Reaches Europe as Assets Hit $1 Trillion