Sapient Global Markets launched a set of services designed to help investors meet requirements under the European Central Bank's ABS loan-level initiative.

Paris-based independent cooperative finance firm Groupe GIAC arranged the €80 million cash transaction. GIAC provides long-term financing to French companies.

The search for yield is providing some much-needed liquidity for a small corner of a market that has yet to recover from the financial crisis: auction rate securities.

There is no rest for weary U.S. ABCP market participants who have been 'up against it' almost non-stop for the past five years.

Activity in the primary securitization market was muted in August, with little new issuance in auto loans.

The continued difficulty of acquiring repossessed, single-family homes to rent on a significant scale makes it unlikely that these assets will be securitized this year.

Whatever the program's intentions, it is wrong to believe that the GSEs would not be financially damaged by the proposed program.

Spreads draw investors back even as deal terms loosen.

Paris-based independent cooperative finance firm Groupe GIAC arranged the €80 million cash transaction. GIAC provides long-term financing to French companies.

This month ASR tackles a wide range of topics, from thorny issues such as regulations and eminent domain to the delayed onset of securitization of REO-to-rent homes.

MBS prepayment numbers for August are expected to jump, in part because of an increased number of days on which mortgage holders can finalize a refinancing. The market is projected to see the opposite effect in September, which will have fewer such days.

Euro market participants are wary of regulations they say might stop funding of the real economy