Standard Agreements
published: 1-Oct-03 The Association has published a Trade Assignment Agreement, which may be utilized to assign an outright securities transaction, or the back-leg of a repo transaction.
published: 16-Jun-03 Cross-Product Master Agreement, Cross-Affiliate Version 2 and 2000 Cross-Product Master Agreement. Agreements, Guidance Notes, Legal Memoranda and Opinions.
published: 1-Jun-98 Agreement
published: 1-Jul-96 Agreement (pdf)
Guidance Notes (pdf)
published: 13-Jun-03 Cross-Product Master Agreement, Cross-Affiliate Version 2 (pdf)
Guidance Notes to CPMA2 (pdf)
published: 16-Feb-00 Cross-Product Master Agreement, February 16, 2000
Cross-Product Master Agreement Guidance Notes(pdf), February 16, 2000. Note: if you have difficulty printing this document, send it to your printer a few pages at a time.
| Guidelines, Procedures, Documentationpublished: 19-Apr-07 The trade associations jointly released a draft set of non-binding principles relating to retail structured products which focus on the management of the relationship between providers and distributors, from the perspectives of both type of entity.
published: 3-Oct-06 In order to improve the efficiency, transparency, and usefulness of reporting on Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs), The Bond Market Association, in concert with other participants in the CDO marketplace, is recommending a standardized format for data files related to the performance of CDO transactions that are disseminated on a regular basis by the trustees of the deals.
published: 18-May-06 The Bond Market Association (TBMA) will publish revised recommended Buy-In Procedures for Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) on July 5, 2006, with an immediate effective date.
published: 27-Feb-06 The Association has compiled a list of contacts for mortgage Operations professionals, both buyside and sellside, involved in the resolution of round robin situations.
published: 13-Feb-06 Revised “Good Delivery Guidelines”, found in Uniform Practices Chapter 8, were published in December 2005. One important change will be effective on Wednesday, March 1.
published: 18-Aug-04 A revised version of the Association's standardized template for monthly CDO trustee reports.
published: 26-May-04 The Bond Market Association is recommending that participants in the CDO market consider using the attached standardized template when creating CDO monthly trustee reports. Doing so will help to improve the readability of such reports by standardizing their organization and identifying a basic, minimum level of content. Widespread adoption of the template will allow trustee report users to find the same information in the same location within every trustee report issued.
published: 21-Feb-03
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The Bond Market Association Secondary Market Procedures (April, 2003)
published: 12-Jun-02 The European Securitisation Forum has unveiled a white paper, A Framework for European Securitisation.
published: 20-May-02 From time to time in connection with mortgage securities forward transactions, a dealer may agree to accept performance obligations that have been delegated by its counterparty to a third party with whom the dealer does not have an original contractual relationship.
published: 20-May-02 Recommendation of The Bond Market Association Concerning Written Documentation Governing Securities Forward Transactions.
published: 8-Oct-99 In December 2000 the Association published an exposure draft of standardized documentation and guidance notes to facilitate debt prime brokerage transactions.
published: 8-Oct-99 The following guideline for pool notification extension has been adopted pursuant to the Association's good delivery guidelines. This guideline sets forth contingency procedures to be followed in the event that MBSCC's Electronic Pool Notification system experiences a system disruption.
published: 1-Mar-99 Notification and settlement dates for mortgage backed securities.
published: 6-Feb-99 Principles and Practices for Wholesale Financial Market Transactions.
published: 1-Jan-99 
The comprehensive Uniform Practices Manual is considered by many to be the industry standard. These are trading, clearance and settlement guidelines representing common industry practice, providing the information you need in one place. A full chapter is devoted to Standard Formulas, with information on settlement-based calculations, prepayment models, default analysis, yield and yield-related measures, accrual instrument calculations, day-count standards, as well as age and coupon assumptions for generic pools.
2nd Edition. ©1999-2004.
published: 1-Oct-98 Recommended minimum security-level remittance reporting categories, definitions and file layouts for mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities.
published: 24-Sep-98 The Bond Market Association has adopted recommended minimum security-level remittance reporting categories, definitions and file layouts for mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities ("MBS" and "ABS", respectively). These
published: 1-Sep-97 Current Status, Industry Challenges and Goals for Reform
A1996 assessment of the then-current status of the remittance information reporting process for non-agency mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities.
published: 1-Oct-94 Buy-In Procedures for Mortgage-Backed Securities (pdf)
published: 19-May-04 The final version of the Guiding Principles to Promote the Integrity of Fixed-Income Research .
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