As with Treasury’s earlier recommendations specific to the agency-RMBS market, the Friday capital-markets report emphasizes the importance of changing the capital rules to enhance asset securitization. Indeed, the capital questions are still more critical in this arena because other asset classes of course generally do not have agency guarantors and thus favorable capital, liquidity and risk-retention treatment.
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