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Siv troubles endure as banks revise super-conduit plan
The troubles facing structured investment vehicles are leaving new issuance in the mortgage markets looking shaky. It is unclear whether plans to create a super-Siv to bail them will succeed
Loan modifications remain limited, say rating agencies
Servicers may lack the manpower or the incentive to head off rising delinquencies as 2006 loans reset
Regulator warns: plan for the worst
The UK's Financial Services Authority has warned lenders to prepare sooner rather than later for the threat of funding markets staying shut. Rob Mannix reports
MPs slam rating agencies over Northern Rock
Representatives from the three main rating agencies go before a House of Commons committee to answer for their supposed failings in warning investors of trouble at the embattled UK lender
Markit group buys up iTraxx/CDX index family
The London-based data provider signs a deal to buy the credit derivatives indices from the bank consortia that previously owned and managed them
Moody's rolls out RMBS data tool for Europe
The EMEA PDS tool gives users access to the same kind of deal information for European RMBS that the rating agency's own analysts use