NEW YORK CITY—Chimera Investment Corp., an internally managed REIT headquartered in New York City focusing on investing in residential mortgage loans, has recently implemented a new SaaS-based investment accounting, reporting, and analytics solutions in order to provide better investment data transparency while supporting sophisticated accounting requirements.

To meet their obligations and regulations, REITs require a significantly high level of investment data quality and transparency, according to a prepared release put out by the provider, Clearwater Analytics. "Historically, REITs have relied heavily on extensive internal processes that are difficult to manage and scale, because legacy investment accounting solutions were not designed for them," the release says.

Chimera maintains a diversified investment portfolio that includes residential mortgage loans, non-agency and agency residential mortgage-backed securities (which includes interest only and principal only), and agency commercial mortgage-backed securities.

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