“”Tom Deutsch, executive director of the American Securitization Forum, an industry lobbying group, said in a statement that the SJC’s decision, holds that “assignments of mortgage can be executed in blank, as long as a complete chain of transfers can be shown through the applicable deal documents.”””

This statement is an outright LIE. It doesn’t need to be explored

I can’t even believe this guy would so shamelessly lie quite honestly. Whatever credibility ASF had is gone completely.

This is directly from the ruling. It’s very unambiguous THERE CAN BE NO ASSIGNMENT IN BLANK!

We have long held that a
conveyance of real property, such as a mortgage, that does not
name the assignee conveys nothing and is void; we do not
regard an assignment of land in blank as giving legal title in land
to the bearer of the assignment. See Flavin v. Morrissey, 327
Mass. 217, 219 (1951); Macurda v. Fuller, 225 Mass. 341, 344
(1916). See also G.L. c. 183, § 3.

This isn’t even a close call.