Industry association: Swaps regulations, Volcker Rule could combine to hinder private mortgage securitization

An industry association is warning that new rules from the nation’s futures regulator could interact with Dodd-Frank’s Volcker Rule to “drastically curtail” the securitization market at a time when policymakers hope to restart private residential mortgage securitizations. Read on to learn about the issue and what the group wants regulators to do about it.