Fitch Ratings said that after reaching a high-water mark of $92 billion in June 2010, the balance of specially serviced loans dropped to $80.5 billion through June 2012.

View year-to-date 2011 ABS issuance totals for ABS, MBS and CMBS.

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See results from the Mortgage Bankers Association's Refinance and Purchase Indexes as well as the weekly mortgage rates surveyed by Freddie Mac.

Since Risk Management Solutions changed its hurricane model in March 2011,

Santander Consumer USA is planning to issue a subprime auto securitization called Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2012-6 worth $1.25 billion.

CarMax and Huntington are both planning to sell their respective auto securitizations.

Citibank plans to launch a new securitization deal from its Citibank Credit Card Issuance Trust, according to an SEC registration the bank filed today.

Redwood Trust filed an SEC registration for a new RMBS deal to be issued from its Sequoia series of deals.

The ABS industry right now is very focused on the October 12, changes the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission plans to make that would render deals "commodity pools".

The new $876mn conduit CMBS from Deutsche Bank/Cantor will raise year to date issuance in the sector to $32bn, $1bn less than 2011’s full year total, according to today's Standard & Poor's securitization update.

Mortgage performance at national banks improved slightly in the second quarter, and seriously delinquent loans were at their lowest level in three years, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said Thursday.