The next action on risk-retention standards required by the Dodd-Frank Act could be more than a year away, according to agendas recently released by federal regulators. Meanwhile, new disclosure requirements for MBS and ABS could be released soon by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Federal regulators listed risk-retention requirements as a “long-term action” on their fall regulatory agendas, with no indication of when the next action will be taken or what that action might be. The comment period on a revised proposal for risk-retention requirements closed...