The Senate Banking Committee continued negotiations over the weekend on landmark legislation to overhaul the mortgage finance system, but it remains unclear when, or if, panel leaders will reschedule a key vote on the bill.

Anthony Papadakis and Kevin Joseph have joined Opus Bank as managing directors in the bank’s structured finance division.

American Homes 4 Rent may become the third company to issue a deal backed by rental payments.

The issuer plans to offer a $238M deal backed by shipping container lease revenues and residual cash flows. The arrangers are Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas and RBC.

Prices for loans underlying commercial mortgage-backed securities held steady over the past month, according to DebtX, which operates an online marketplace for loan sales.

Redwood Trust will struggle to generate revenue without securitization funding as an option according to an FBR Capital Markets report.

Bankers are split on whether consumers' use of credit cards will stabilize over the next two years and if their level of card debt may eventually return to pre-financial crisis levels, according to a report released by the Federal Reserve Board.

Hyundai is planning to issue $1.325 billion of securities backed by prime auto loans, according to a presale report published by Standard & Poor’s.

The dea, dubbedl CCG 2014-1, is the fourth term asset-backed securitization sponsored by Commercial Credit Group and rated by DBRS, and the first deal for the issuer in 2014.

A two-year extension to the deadline for banks to conform CLO holdings to the Volcker Rule doesn't apply to all, the Federal Reserve says.

European regulators are coming around to the idea that strict rules on securitizations are hurting efforts to jump start the region’s economy, in particular by restricting smaller companies’ access to financing.

Either as a spur or a hindrance to structured finance, regulations remain the dominant theme of our industry (and, by extension this magazine) in 2014.