RMBS

Residential mortgage-backed securities, or RMBS, are bonds or notes created by securitisation that are backed by residential mortgages or residential real estate loans. RMBS originators are typically financial institutions that originate residential real estate or residential mortgage loans, including banks, building societies/savings & loans and mortgage finance companies. However, issuers could also include government-guaranteed securities issued following bank bailouts, such as TARP or TALF, and the Government Sponsored Enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. To create residential mortgage-backed securities, or RMBS, institutions sell pools of their loans to a special-purpose vehicle, or SPV, which then sells the loans to a trust. The trust then repackages the loans as interest-bearing securities and issues them. This true sale of the loans to the SPV ensures that the RMBS is treated as bankruptcy-remote from the originator. Many different types of assets back RMBS, including prime, non-conforming, sub-prime, Alt-A (or Alternative-A), buy-to-let and single-family rental (SFR) mortgages. The financial crisis caused residential mortgage valuations to plummet, leading to severe losses/defaults in many RMBS transactions (and ABS CDOs), as well as efforts to begin modifying loan documentation and indeed the creation of many credit/dislocation/distressed opportunity/recovery funds to take advantage of opportunities in the RMBS sector. Post-crisis, the Government Sponsored Enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have developed a credit risk transfer market, comprising synthetic RMBS structures (whereby the risk is transferred via CDS tranches).

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  News Round-up    22 December 2015

• Software firm acquired

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  Job Swaps    22 December 2015

• Freddie sells NPLs to non-profit

  Freddie Mac has sold via auction 103 deeply delinquent NPLs serviced by Wells Fargo from its mortgag...

  News Round-up    22 December 2015

• RPL approach updated

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  News Round-up    21 December 2015

• Payment allocation scrutinised

  Kroll Bond Rating Agency has placed its ratings related to 34 classes from RPMLT 2014-1 Trust on wat...

  News Round-up    21 December 2015

• Granite redemptions scheduled

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  News Round-up    21 December 2015

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  A look at the major activity in structured finance over the past seven days

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  News    21 December 2015

• Innovative CIRT issued

  Fannie Mae has completed its final Credit Insurance Risk Transfer deal of 2015 - the first...

  News Round-up    18 December 2015

• Italian regs boost ABS

  The Bank of Italy's regulatory framework enacted in 2015 for financial intermediaries carrying out s...

  News Round-up    18 December 2015

• FHFA scorecard heralds change

  The FHFA has released its 2016 scorecard for the GSEs and Common Securitization Solutions (CSS). Hig...

  News    18 December 2015

• Delavaco performance triggers breached

  The underperformance of the Delavaco loan backing FirstKey Lending 2015-SFR1 - the first multi-borro...

  News Round-up    18 December 2015

• Euro secondary stalls

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  SCIWire    18 December 2015

• Bloomberg to buy BRAIS

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  Job Swaps    17 December 2015

• Greek foreclosure effect limited

  A new foreclosure framework will only offer limited benefit to Greek RMBS transactions, says Fitch....

  News Round-up    17 December 2015

• Fed to maintain MBS policy

  In a unanimous decision by the FOMC, the US Fed announced yesterday that it is mov...

  News Round-up    17 December 2015

• Counterparty rating actions inked

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  News Round-up    17 December 2015

• Euro secondary chugs along

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  SCIWire    17 December 2015

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  News Round-up    16 December 2015

• Litvak case set for retrial

  The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the conviction of former Jefferies md Jesse Litvak...

  Job Swaps    16 December 2015

• Liquid launch

  Agency RMBS favoured ahead of Fed lift-off

  A 25bp increase in the Fed funds target rate is widely expected to be announced later today. The pac...

  News Analysis    16 December 2015

• Euro secondary split

  Activity and price direction in the European securitisation secondary market is currently split in t...

  SCIWire    16 December 2015