Structured Finance

Highlights

• 23 Apr 2013
  • April ABS Spotlight Newsletter
    In this issue, we offer the first in a series of articles on solar panels, a potential new asset class for ABS. We also show how President Obama’s 2014 budget plan will affect private student loan securitizations and provide our outlook for the US credit card issuers’ profitability in 2013, and much more... Full Report
• 19 Apr 2013
  • Comment requested on revised approach to evaluating tail risk in US RMBS
    The proposed adjustments are to our monitoring approach for evaluating tail risk in pro-rata pay US residential mortgage-backed securities that do not have compensating mechanisms of support, such as credit enhancement floors or non-declining reserve funds. If implemented, it will result in ratings downgrades for about 1200 RMBS that are exposed to tail risk... Full Report
• 17 Apr 2013
  • ResiLandscape reports on a rebounding US house price outlook
    The monthly newsletter also looks at how overall RMBS loss severities will remain high over the next year because a rising proportion of property liquidations will comprise loans that have been delinquent three years or more. We also report on how, even in the current climate, our originator assessments reveal significant variations among originators in key aspects of their practices... Full Report