Richard Johns, executive director of SFIG, was looking to inject some levity on Tuesday morning’s opening panel and led a Family Fued style survey that pitted issuers against investors.

A new $913.5-million CMBS is in the market, according to a pre-sale from DBRS. The deal, called GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2015-GC28, is backed by 74 loans on a total of 112 properties.

CarMax is prepping its first auto loan securitization of 2015, according to a regulatory filing.

Clifford Chance has poached Gianluca Bacchiocchi from DLA Piper as a partner.

Most are currently exempt, but the carve out that they enjoy from Dodd-Frank is contentious; former Congressman Barney Frank, one of the act’s co-authors, called attention to it at his keynote speech at IMN’s ABS Vegas conference on Monday morning.

Blame the sullen headlines and not the performance and issuance forecast for the sparse attendance at this year’s Student loans ABS panel at ABS Vegas.

Former Congressman Barney Frank, co-author of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, is not opposed to changes in the eponymous legislation, but in some cases he thinks the rules should be tightened, rather than loosened.

California mortgage broker Logan Mohtashami says the most popular product he arranged last year were second-lien, or piggyback loans — a variety of mortgages that banks stopped making when the housing market blew up.

Turnover in the securitization market means some industry players, just arriving at the space, may not remember the lessons learned from the financial crisis.

The upcoming ABCP regulations which panelists coined as the “Wheel of Torture” doesn’t reflect the fact that for the last seven years, ABCP has been a plain vanilla product,

panelists at IMN's ABS Vegas conference see potential for more commercial PACE and aircraft lease securitization.

Issuance volume of ABS, RMBS and CMBS for the year through February 6, 2015.