An academic advocates a new approach to reform: breaking up the rating agency "oligopoly."

As refinancing volumes plummet, lenders are trying to extend the home financing boom by pitching adjustable-rate mortgages to borrowers, harkening back to the pre-crisis boom years.

Many banks in the auto lending business have been making investments that they hope will give them a more enduring edge; to the extent that bank are less likely to securitize these loans, this could impact securitization volume.

Two Ohio utility rate reduction bonds that priced this summer rekindle a debate as to the appropriate benchmark for these securities.

A longstanding leading issuer of munis, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) took an entirely new approach to the capital markets this past July: a catastrophe bond.

Proposed changes to GAAP could make it less attractive to lease large equipment, but more attractive to securitize leases.

Freddie Mac takes the first step in shifting mortgage default risk to the private sector.

Moody's: No Rating Impact on Cairn CLO's Amendment

SFIG is the latest securitization voice to join opposition against eminent domain. The group filed a brief today in support of Wells Fargo’s lawsuit to stop the City of Richmond, California from seizing mortgage loans under the plan.

FINRA’s planto disseminate pricing on after-market transactions in asset-backed securities through TRACE should transform the market.

I advocate a new approach to reform: breaking up the rating agency oligopoly.

Two Ohio utility rate reduction bonds that priced this summer rekindle a debate as to the appropriate benchmark for these securities.