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'Reg AB' Still a Source of Confusion.(Securities and Exchange Commission,)(Mortgage Bankers Association)

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Chicago -- Regulation AB requires lenders and loan purchasers to provide static pool data for loans included in a securitization.

But the Securities and Exchange Commission has not provided any clear guidance on what a material percentage of a particular originator's loans in the pool is required for that originator to have to provide static pool data, said Richard D. Simonds Jr., a partner at the law firm Thacher Profitt & Wood.

This was part of the discussion at a panel session on the newly implemented regulation held at the Mortgage Bankers Association's National Secondary Market Conference here.

Kelly C. Johnson, senior vice president, secondary marketing at National City Mortgage Co., added that some people might require an originator to provide the static pool data no matter how few of its loans were in the transaction.

Part of the issue involves sellers who sell loans on a servicing-released basis, said Bill Felts, vice president, CitiMortgage Inc. These sellers do not have such data.

One solution has been for sellers who sell loans servicing released on a flow basis to be treated as a "qualified correspondent." Thus they are selling the loans to the purchaser's ...

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