Americas

News analysis

  • US covered bonds could replace mortgage finance

    25 May 2012

    A proposal by the US Federal Housing Finance Agency should help to bolster the US mortgage market, if legislation is not passed to allow for US covered bonds. But the American Securitization Forum sees value in developing the product.

  • How to regulate money market funds

    22 May 2012

    Senior industry figures have been debating how to regulate money market funds at the 2012 American Securitization Forum

  • OPEN ACCESS: Further fixing of international swaps data expected

    11 May 2012

    The US' CFTC moved to encourage international harmonisation of swaps data recordkeeping earlier this month. But the real fix to the swaps data repository indemnification provision of Dodd-Frank is expected to come out of Congress.

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