23 August 2012 6:49am

Issuers of covered bonds and mortgage-backed securities are being asked to pay the costs of a new analytical service that its promoters contend is needed to tackle the scepticism towards this asset class among offshore investors.

Perpetual Corporate Trust and Oliver Wyman have backed the service developed by Morgij Analytics, a firm founded by former Barclays Capital and Allco executive Graham Andersen.

The new service, dubbed MARQ Services, aims to collate much more detailed – and much more comparable – information on home loan pools supporting RMBS bonds than is presently...