mortgage-backed securities

On February 2, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issued a regulatory notice (Regulatory Notice 21-02) on modifications to its Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE) dissemination protocols applicable to agency pass-through mortgage-backed securities and Small Business Administration (SBA)-backed asset-backed securities traded in specified pool transactions.
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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority recently released a document outlining updates to the TRACE Web Application Programming Interface (API). This new update, Version 5.0, affects only securitized products. As mentioned in the FINRA Regulatory Notice, effective May 16, 2011, securitized products include asset-backed securities, mortgage-backed securities and other similar securities. The document provides the new securitized products Sub Product Asset Codes and their descriptions.
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