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In addition to getting private equity involved, some of the money from the remaining TARP capital may go to mortgage relief. According to MarketWatch, "The Treasury Department also is expected to use between $50 billion and $100 billion of the bank bailout program to fund a mortgage-mitigation proposal to...
Pricing plain-vanilla mortgage-backed securities (MBS), which are based on thousands of home loans, isn't easy. But MBS are only the tip of the troubled bank iceberg. Lurking below are bonds that are more complicated, and much more difficult to value. Among the most confounding are collateralized debt...
So what is Strata worth today? Certainly not the original $20 million it's investors paid for it. According to research firm Markit, the average CDO tied to mortgage bonds lost half its value last year. CDOs based on corporate bonds have performed better. However, Strata sold insurance against high...
The prickly problem, though - as Dugan has pointed out - is that the available data from the OCC and OTS are rife with flaws. For instance, nowhere do servicers report what, exactly, they're doing when they modify a loan. And that, as it turns out, is an incredibly important detail...
One reason servicers haven't more wholeheartedly adopted bolder tactics is lingering concern over getting sued by investors who are ultimately entitled to the loan payments through mortgage-related securities. Servicers are contractually bound to act in the interest of investors overall, but they might still not rewrite loans, even...