The NAIC’s New Year’s Resolution for 2013: A New RMBS Model?
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) will be releasing their 2012 model recovery values for the non-agency residential mortgage [...]
December 19, 2012 | Categories: Industry Insight, Structured Products
CMBS 2.0 – Not Quite the Improvement We Were Hoping For
CMBS 2.0 – Not Quite the Improvement We Were Hoping For Commercial mortgage backed security issuance has rebounded dramatically since [...]
December 21, 2011 | Categories: Industry Insight, Structured Products
Universal Refinance Wave vs. Gradual HARP Changes
Agency Mortgage Backed Security prepayments have been a topic of concern for mortgage market investors. Will there be a universal [...]
December 2, 2011 | Categories: Industry Insight, Structured Products
BankAmerica Agrees to Pay $8.5 Billion to Settle Mortgage Loan Litigation
On June 29, 2011, BankAmerica announced that they had reached an agreement to make an $8.5 billion cash payment to [...]
June 30, 2011 | Categories: Industry Insight, Structured Products
Reforming America’s Housing Market – GSE Reform Proposal
Reforming America’s Housing Market – GSE Reform Proposal The much anticipated Government-Sponsored Enterprise (GSE) Reform Proposal to stabilize the future [...]
March 30, 2011 | Categories: Industry Insight, Structured Products
Loan Modifications to Lead the Way Forward for Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities
Loan Modifications to Lead the Way Forward for Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities During the past year, The U.S. economy improved [...]
March 18, 2011 | Categories: Industry Insight, Structured Products
Foreclosure Moratorium: A Fly in the Housing Ointment
Following GMAC’s (Ally Financial) announcement that it was suspending foreclosures in states that follow a judicial foreclosure process, JPMorgan Chase, [...]
October 15, 2010 | Categories: Structured Products
Practical Methods for Valuing Fixed Income Securities to Derive a Fair Value Estimate
Executive Summary As the reverberations from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis continue to impact the economy, capital markets and ultimately structured [...]
February 25, 2010 | Categories: Accounting & Tax Updates, Industry Insight, Structured Products
Chameleons of the Fixed Income Market
Just as chameleons change their appearance to protect themselves against predators in the harsh environment, so too has the unsecured [...]
July 2, 2007 | Categories: Industry Insight, Structured Products


