Residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS)

Mortgage Backed Securities that are backed by loans secured with residential rather than commercial property.

Residential Mortgage-Backed Security

A derivative whose value is derived from home equity loans and mortgages on properties where people live. As with all mortgage-backed securities, this entitles the owner to a claim on the principal and interest payments on the particular mortgages underpinning the security. MBS's pay an interest rate that is usually related to the interest rates the homeowners are paying on their mortgages. The equivalent of the coupon on a mortgage backed security is a percentage of the interest and principal paid on the mortgages backing the security. An obvious risk to a residential MBS is the possibility that interest rates on home loans may decline, causing homeowners to refinance their mortgages and deprive the holder of the security from future interest payments.

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Five Oaks Investment launches 3.5m share offering

UK lender Lloyds Banking Group plc (LON:LLOY) said it had agreed to shed a portfolio of US residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) with a book value of some GBP2.7bn (USD4.1bn/EUR3.2bn) to institutions for an aggregate GBP3.3bn in cash.Country: USASector: Banking/Financial ServicesTarget: US residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) with book value of USD4.1bnBuyer: Unnamed institutions, Goldman Sachs International Ltd Vendor: Lloyds TSB Group Pension Trust (No 1) Ltd , Lloyds Banking Group plc Deal size in USD: 5bnType: DivestmentStatus: AgreedComment: Price for sale of USD258.8m book value to oldman Sachs International is USD304.5m.

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Deutsche Bank names head of mortgage-backed securities

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