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Asset-Backed Securities: Disclosure Regulation or Substantive Legislation?

In addition to improving asset-backed securities disclosure (using XBRL perhaps?), SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro called for substantive ABS regulation in a speech Tuesday to SIFMA, the parent organization of the American Securitization Forum (link to colorful Michael Lewis description): ABS Regulation In one final example, I believe there may be gaps that should be filled [...]

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Could New SEC Disclosure Rule Revive Asset-Backed Securities Market?

Updated: Dec. 15, 2009 Update: The SEC published its one-year extension on Dec. 15, 2009. Extension of Filing Accommodation for Static Pool Original Post The SEC on Monday quietly proposed a brief rule to give asset-backed securities issuers an extra year of status quo disclosure. The original rule was approved in December 2004. Monday’s 17-page [...]

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