SEC to tighten ABS market regulation

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US - The SEC is to announce new proposals to tighten up the regulation of the $3.8trn asset backed securities (ABS) market in the US.

In the US new issues of mortgage backed and asset backed securities are worth more than the Treasury market and the corporate bond market combined. ABSs allow companies to use illiquid assets as...

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