Residential Capital has rejected Warren Buffett’s offer to be the initial bidder in proposed auctions of ResCap assets, Bloomberg News has reported.

The Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC) has appointed Thomas Butler as director of the agency's new office of credit ratings, which was created by the Dodd-Frank Act.

A federal court panel said Bank of America can't consolidate multiple lawsuits involving losses suffered from the collapse of Taylor Bean & Whitaker and Colonial Bank in a multibillion-dollar fraud.

A proposal by regulators to revamp the way banks must measure risk on certain assets is alarming many community bankers who argue it will raise capital requirements, increase compliance costs and curb lending.

Dutch house prices are expected to fall by at least another 7% on the back of a deteriorating macro-economic environment, said Fitch Ratings in a report today.

Moody’s Investors Service's downgrade of Spain may have deepened the European debt crisis, but it isn't indicative of the performance securitized deals in this or other peripheral states.

Players in the asset-backed commercial paper market have learned their lessons from the financial crisis and are ready to apply them in the wake of bank downgrades by Moody's Investors Service.

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) President and CEO, Tim Ryan said on Bloomberg TV that financial regulatory reform has added more complexity to the already difficult financial institution world.

Structured finance investors would prefer to rely on fewer sources of pricing for tracking deals, according to 107 investors in the industry surveyed by Principia Partners.

Industry groups asked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Wednesday to convene a panel to review the potential effects of new mortgage lending standards on small businesses.

Shenkman Capital Management is in the market with its first collateralized loan obligation since the financial crisis.