The Structured Finance Industry Group (SFIG) Las Vegas conference scheduled for Jan., is on track to be the largest securitization event of 2014 with an anticipated 5000 attendees.

Standard & Poor’s expects the credit quality of new issue commercial mortgage bonds to deteriorate in 2014 as the result of increased competition among lenders.

The seven largest student loan servicers can handle the bump in operating costs that will result from the new oversight of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB); but not the smaller servicers, Fitch Ratings said.

Wells Fargo and Royal Bank of Scotland are marketing a $1.03 billion deal; there's also a $1.1 billion offering fro Deutsche Bank and Cantor Fitzgerald.

The Long Island Power Company's $2.1 billion of bonds backed by payments from retail electric customers in its service is expected to price sometime this week.

Blame the continued transfer of mortgage servicing to non-banks, which employ different modification strategies and tend to advance fewer payments.

The chief real estate officer for Carrington Holding company says that unemployment, housing inventory and availability of credit are still concerns.

Several new deals came to market in November, despite more difficult market conditions.

View the year-to-date manager rankings through Dec.27 for the different ABS sectors, including real estate, credit cards and autos.

View year-to-date issuance through Dec. 27 for ABS, MBS and CMBS.

Over time the asset class is likely to become the second-biggest contributor to the growth of securitization markets in the US, according to Deutsche Bank.

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