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Servicing plays a large part in the secondary market, as servicers handle the loans ultimately owned by investors. So servicers should take a keen interest in efforts to restart what is now a stalled market.
Executives of the Mortgage Bankers Association met with the press at its National Secondary Market Conference recently in Chicago to discuss their most recent position papers on market liquidity and key considerations for the future, and they're a good place to start.
MBA president John Courson told reporters he expects the problem will carry over until next year, with possibly hearings being held in Congress this year. The immediate next step is to determine the structure of a secondary market, whether private, public, or co-operative, he said.
The first guiding principle is that secondary market transactions should be funded by investors who take on the credit risk and other risks inherent in the transactions. Transparency is needed in four areas - loan level information, bond structure, risk ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Things to Watch For.(Editorial)