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Volume 15 - Number 19

September 16, 2011

Liquidating Trusts: A Viable Financing Option

Mortgage lenders and servicers with large portfolios of seriously delinquent home loans have turned to “liquidating trust” structures as a financing alternative – with good results, according to credit rating agency DBRS. So far, the performance of six nonperforming loan securitizations with 14 outstanding tranches rated by DBRS has been stable and largely within expectations at the time of rating, said Quincy Tang, the rating agency’s senior vice president of structured finance. As of Sept. 6, all rated classes of one transaction (Residential Loan Trust 2008-2) have been paid in full, said Tang. The Class A notes in...

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