On November 28, the FHFA announced the 2024 conforming loan limit values for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs). The limit increased to $766.550 for single unit properties, up 5.5% from the current limit...
Read MoreOne out of every three securitized office mortgages that expired during the first nine months of 2023 was paid off by the end of September, according to Moody’s Analytics. This share is well below that...
Read MoreOn November 28, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Rohit Chopra testified in a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee followed by the Senate Banking Committee on November 29. The hearing took...
Read MoreThe Structured Finance Association (SFA) has issued a statement on the SEC’s finalized rule to prohibit conflicts of interest in certain securitizations. Michael Bright, CEO of SFA, said, “The SEC’s final rule incorporated many important...
Read MoreOn November 14, U.S. bank regulators from the Federal Reserve, FDIC, and OCC, testified before the Senate Banking Committee, followed by the House Financial Services Committee on November 15. Republican and Democratic members in both...
Read MoreSEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda has emphasized the need for a potential re-proposal of their 2022 proposal related to climate disclosure, if the final rule is to substantially deviate from the SEC’s original. Uyeda’s remarks come...
Read MoreOn October 31, a group of 25 bipartisan members of the House Financial Services Committee wrote to SEC Chairman Gary Gensler to express concerns about the re-proposed conflict of interest rule for securitization. The letter...
Read MoreToday, The Structured Finance Association (SFA) announced that trusted legal advisor David Dwyer and ABS policy expert Frank Tallerico have joined SFA to advance the Association’s policy agenda on behalf of its 370+ members. “As...
Read MoreOn August 23, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted a final Private Fund Advisers Rule that will significantly increase the compliance obligations of private fund managers in the form of quarterly financial statements to...
Read MoreOn July 27, financial regulators issued the Basel III Regulatory Capital Proposal. The proposal would impose frameworks for greater risk-based capital requirements on banking organizations with total consolidated assets of over $100 billion or more....
Read MoreWASHINGTON, July 14, 2023 – The Structured Finance Association (SFA) sent a follow-up letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with recommended amendments to the re-proposed rule on the Prohibition Against Conflicts of Interests in Certain...
Read MoreOn March 27, SFA submitted a comment letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding their recently re-proposed rule on the “Prohibition of Conflicts of Interest in Securitizations.” In the letter, SFA highlights that with the sweeping scope...
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