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the analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch have revised down their structured-finance issuance forecast in Europe for 2013
In a Bank of America Merrill Lynch conference call held yesterday, Theresa O’Neill, an asset-backed strategist from the firm, said that participants in the consumer ABS market need to keep a careful eye on certain regulatory developments related to securitization, namely the bank capital rules, risk retention, as well as any new rules from the Consumer Financial Protection […]
Capital requirements under the new bank capital rules released by U.S. regulators will be computed based on three formulas, although U.S. banks are expected to mostly gravitate to only one. At a conference call early this week, Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts said that most of these institutions will likely use the simplified supervisory […]
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has sold the entirety of the TRIAXX CDO holdings from its Maiden Lane III portfolio to Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith after a competitive bid process. Aside from Merrill, the other eight dealers asked by the NY Fed to bid were Barclays Capital, Citigroup Global Markets, Credit Suisse, […]
Five years after the financial crisis, the first wave of lawsuits filed by investors seeking to recover losses on MBS is still slogging its way through the courts, and, for many, the clock is ticking. The bulk of cases to date were brought under federal securities law; most were filed in 2007 and 2008 and […]