Monthly Archives: March 2010

Note to File re: Fair Value Auction

Note to File: If you thought about it, when we take something as complicated as a pooling and servicing agreement and then modify it to do a work around changes to GAAP, it’s not going to be pretty. And it’s not. Welcome to the fair value auction. In a CMBS securitization, when a loan defaults, you’d figure … Continue Reading

Time to Read that PSA

I’m just about to do another CRE Finance Council (formerly CMSA) PSA after work tutorial. A couple of observations. As a lawyer who packed the sausage casings, it is startling to see how much uncertainty and, in fact, misinformation exists about how a PSA actually works in the community of people who buy and sell bonds and other financial assets. Perhaps not … Continue Reading

New REMIC Rules Leave Servicers with Questions

The changes to the REMIC rules (PDF) were intended, at least in part, to ease restrictions on servicers of securitized mortgage loans. However, while expanding the scope of permitted modifications, the new REMIC regulations also impose a requirement that the modified loan be re-tested to ensure the mortgage loan continues to be principally secured by … Continue Reading

Why is Sheila Bair Making Rules on the Safe Harbor for Bank Securitization?

As if we didn’t have enough trouble already, we’re now caught in the political cross-fire between Sheila Bair at the FDIC and the rest of the regulatory apparatchnik of the capital markets. We all commented last week on the FDIC’s Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPR”) on the new safe harbor for bank securitization. It seems little … Continue Reading
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