The U.S. housing market and consumer are looking much healthier and there are reasons to believe they will only get stronger.

Regulators risk stifling a recovery in the securitization market if they subject privately offered securities to the same disclosure and reporting requirements as public offerings.

RBS Securities plans a $295 million single borrower CMBS backed by a loan secured by the Shops at Mission Viejo called RBS Commercial Funding Inc. 2013-SMV Trust.

Goldman Sachs plans to issue a $1.1 billion commercial mortgage backed securitization, GS Mortgage Securities Corporation Trust 2013-KYO.

Stonegate Mortgage Corporation, hired Eric Scholtz as executive vice president of structured finance.

CarMax Business Services LLC is preparing its first issue of 2013,a $800 million auto asset-backed securities deal called CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2013-1.

A New Haven federal grand jury has accused former Jefferies RMBS trader, Jesse Litvak with engaging in a scheme to defraud customers on residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) trades.

There’s been a lot of talk about the REO-to-rental market over the past year, but no clear indication of how securitization can play a role. That was the case as well at a break out session of the American Securitization Forum’s conference.

With CMBS as surprisingly active as it has been since the start of the year, it should come as no surprise that participants of ASF’s 2013 conference were growing more bullish about the sector’s prospects for the entire year.

Participants on a panel at the ASF’s 2013 conference said the major stumbling block remains uncertainty about what would happen to covered bondholders in the event of a troubled issuing bank going into receivership.

In marked contrast to recent years, speakers at the first major panel of the day sounded some fairly upbeat notes.

Spreads on collateralized loan obligations CLO spreads may have tightened quite a bit over the last two years, but they still have a long way to go, according to panelists at the American Securization Forum’s annual meeting.