Six federal agencies have finalized long-anticipated joint rules imposing risk retention, or “skin-in-the-game,” requirements for securitizations. The new rules, when they become effective over the next two years, will impose significant new costs and obligations on a wide range of securitization structures. The risk retention rules come on the heels of a number of other Dodd-Frank reforms that have hit the securitization markets in recent months, including the Volcker Rule, Regulation AB II, and Dodd-Frank derivatives reforms.

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