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.

Vichara Technologies is collaborating with Markit to allow mutual clients to access Markit’s pricing service within Vichara’s platform.

A couple of new tobacco regulations – one on e-cigarettes and another on menthol cigarettes -- could impact consumption levels, the main driver of revenue for tobacco securitization bonds.

Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation priced a securitization of retail auto loans deal that began marketing earlier this week.

Wells Fargo expects U.S. issuance of collateralized loan obligations to moderate in 2014, to $60 billion, partly as the result of regulations that make it less attractive to manage or own these securities

SolarCity’s securitization has opened up the market for significant activity over the next 3 to 4 months.

The Aventura Mall located in Aventura, Fl. backs a $1.2 billion CMBS planned for Turnberry Retail Holding and Simon Property Group.

The Dutch State Treasury will begin selling from its $11.6 billion portfolio of U.S. non-agency RMBS held in the state's Illiquid Assets Back-up Facility.