Speakers at information Management Network's ABS East who tackled the housing market harped on two topics hampering the comeback of private-label RMBS issuance.

One speaker at Information Management Network's ABS East detected a potential bubble forming in the auto subprime segment.

Speakers on a panel at Information Management Network's ABS East excpressed confidence that ABS pros will come around to the potential of environmental and social investing.

The fiscal cliff facing our government at the end of the year was probably the most chilling macro-economic risk that ABS East panelists discussed.

It’s taken several years and rock-bottom interest rates, but more and more investors are eyeing the riskiest tranches of CLOs, known as the equity.

Investors in RMBS that buy mortgages previously serviced by a firm that has

Issuers of covered bonds are making new inroads into the U.S. market

Reporting on the hurricane’s potential impact in the securitization world, Nora Colomer cited CoreLogic’s estimate that nearly 284,000 homes in the Mid-Atlantic region, valued at about $87 billion, were at risk of property damage.

Because of storm damage, many loans currently hedged in pipelines will ulti

Walter Investment revealed that it will take control of $50.4 billion of Fannie Mae mortgage servicing rights when the Residential Capital Corp. deal closes.

The decision to delay the implementation date on Basel III capital rules could be a game changer for the residential mortgage servicing business–or maybe not.

The decision means that the company must now prepare to go to trial to defend itself against allegations by the Federal Housing Finance Agency of wrongdoing in its sale of RMBS.