Alanna McCargo’s appointment marks a new era for the agency, which had been without permanent leadership since 2017.

The defendants said the case was not timely and the bureau’s allegations didn’t apply to them because of statutory wording. The judge, using dictionary definitions and SCOTUS precedent, rejected those claims.

The ABS includes royalties for more than 200 songs that hit number one on the charts. However, none of the songs were disclosed in a rating report on the transaction, and only three artists were identified.

It took seven or eight months for primary mortgage rates to reflect the Fed’s massive intervention in the secondary market.

ABS East attendance declined this year; non-agency MBS issuers saw weaker demand in November as supply spiked; GSE g-fees didn’t vary much based on seller size in 2020.

Six federal regulators tasked with overseeing risk-retention requirements for residential MBS decided to leave the standards unchanged after a two-year-long review.

Mortgage industry stakeholders welcomed Sandra Thompson’s nomination, touting her achievements in her current role as acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

The Structured Finance Association said the SEC’s Exchange Act Rule 15c2-11 would lead to illiquidity in the ABS market.

Some investors in MBS and ABS are ready to discard data collected in the past two years due to distortions from actions by the federal government. One problem: projecting asset performance moving forward.

Changes in FHFA leadership and in the structure of some CRT offerings have altered the calculations of investors.