Some $800 million in servicer-advance ABS was issued by New Residential last week, helping to restart activity in the sector. New servicer-advance ABS issuance had stalled due to issues with ratings from Standard & Poor’s, the predominant rating service in the market. The two deals concurrently issued by New Residential followed a $225 million issuance by Ocwen Financial at the end of June. The firms helped end a year-plus long break in the issuance of rated servicer-advance ABS. In April 2014, S&P placed...