The CLO industry would love to have more explicit guidance from regulators on rules requiring managers to keep ‘skin in the game’ of these deals; unfortunately, that guidance is not likely to come any time soon.

The Federal Housing Administration’s recent determination that loans used to finance energy efficient home improvements rank second in payment priority, behind mortgages, isn’t the setback that it might seem to be.

What’s it going to take to boost annual issuance of private label RMBS roughly ten-fold to $100 billion-$150 billion? A reduced footprint for the GSEs, for starters.

Some of the smaller landlords that Colony American Finance lends to have pretty sophisticated – and innovative – ways to manage credit

Add this to the list of concerns for investors in bonds backed by federally guaranteed student loans: marketplace lenders are stealing their best collateral.

Policies that seek to increase home ownership by extending more credit to homeowners are misguided, according to former Federal Housing Finance Agency chief Edward J. DeMarco.

There’s greater alignment of interest now between those who issue asset-backeds and those who invest in them, said panelists at IMN’s ABS East conference. But risks are still creeping up, particularly in sectors seeing looser underwriting, such as CMBS.

Navient amended another 16 of its securitization trusts, backed by federally guaranteed student loans that are under review for downgrade, to give the sponsor the option to purchase up to 10% of the student loans in those trusts; as well as to provide loans to the trust under a revolving credit agreement (RCA).

Amtrak is turning to the catastrophe bond market for protection against future damage from storm surges.

JPMorgan Chase Bank has returned to the market with a second mortgage risk-sharing deal that is similar to Fannie Mae's Connecticut Avenue Securities (CAS) transactions, according to a pre-sale report from Fitch Ratings.