While Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac remained trapped in federal conservatorships, the two still dominate the mortgage market and little has been done to revive private lending. But that could be changing.

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

View the year-to-date manager rankings for the different ABS sectors, including real estate, credit cards and autos.

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

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, delinquency rates are expected to rise in RMBS deals.

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