The rising costs for banks to hold even low-risk, short-term loans — courtesy of Basel III — is a powerful incentive for them to offload their trade finance receivables into securitizations.

Goldman Sachs and Citigroup’s CMBS conduit GSMS 2014-GC18, priced bonds wide of guidance issued earlier this week.

Alcentra is marketing a €413.5 Million European collateralized loan obligation.

Market participants should weigh on Basel’s latest consultative document in order to strengthen safety and soundness in growing global securitization markets.

The deal, which has been assigned preliminary ratings by Fitch Ratings, Moody’s Investors Service and DBRS, will offer six tranches of triple-A rated bonds structured with 30% credit enhancement.

Players in the REO-to-Rental space see a bright future in pooling the cash flows of many operators into conduit transactions.

MeasureOne, a new data provider focused exclusively on student loans, launched its first database at the ABS Vegas conference.

Three hot asset classes discussed at the ABS Vegas panel on esoterics aren’t all that new: property assessed clean energy loans, rental properties, and solar panel leases

Moody’s Investors Service said its time for the market to assess the level of collateral risk it will tolerate in new vintage conduit CMBS deals.

Investors speaking at a panel at ABS Vegas offered a variety of views on investment opportunities this year.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is likely to issue the long-awaited final ruling of Regulation AB II at an open meeting in February, according to former Chairman Christopher Cox.