Fannie Mae priced its second offering of Connecticut Avenue risk-sharing notes at spreads that were significantly tighter than those of its inaugural issue in October of last year.

There was no mistaking the dominant theme at ABS Vegas, the inaugural conference held Jan. 21-24 by SFIG and IMN: regulation

Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), part of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, made three appointments to its structured products team in New York.

Fitch Ratings is confident that the market can readily absorb the $16.4 billion of non-defaulted commercial mortgage loans maturing this year.

Michael Stegman, a counselor to the Treasury Secretary on housing finance, said the GSEs' recent profitability was misleading and does not lessen the need for housing finance reform.

Participants at an ABS Vegas 2014 panel struggled to explain how private label RMBS could become relevant to a broader range of U.S. consumers, although they took pains to sound optimistic.

GM Financial is taking advantage of the resulting spread compression to start securitization leases (both prime and subprime) and dealer inventory financing.

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

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.

The fundamentals of equipment ABS are stronger than ever as lessons learned from the prior two recessions have resulted in quality and performance improvements which will help the asset class weather future economic downturns.

Most new collaterlized loan obligations have the ability to invest in bonds, but only if regulators clarify certain Volcker Rule language.

Demand for catastrophe bonds and other insurance linked securities far outstrips supply, with predicatable results.