CDOs/CLOs

The FDIC held a meeting March 29 to discuss its risk retention rules and the much debated QRM qualification.

Two and a half years after the global financial markets imploded, the dust has begun to settle, providing a clearer view on which sectors of the securitization market will thrive-and which won't.

Despite recent reports of people changes at some of Wall Street's biggest players in the securitization market, finding work, even for experienced hands, is still no easy task.

As the structured finance market struggles to make sense of myriad new rules stemming from the Dodd-Frank Act, it's become clear that rating agency reform initiatives from the regulators have largely been put on hold.

Although the current syndicated loan and high-yield debt markets are booming, they remain largely unavailable for “turnaround” situations and lower middle-market borrowers seeking to raise funds, according to the Financial Restructuring Quarterly Update report Morgan Joseph TriArtisan issued on Monday.

While default and deferral rates for U.S. bank trust preferred security CDOs remain flat, the sector saw a first last month when a tender offer was accepted in connection with a CDO, according to Fitch Ratings.

The American Securitization Forum (ASF) opened a Washington, D.C. office in an effort to further its advocacy efforts on behalf of the securitization markets.

Business development companies, closed-end funds that invest in the debt and equity of private companies, took their lumps during the credit crisis, but they are suddenly hot commodities.

The 11 banks contesting MBIA’s February 2009 restructuring have long said the regulatory process allowing the move was based on outdated and inaccurate financial information. Now, they have evidence.

Moody's Investors Service would like to hear from market participants regarding proposed changes to its modeling framework for cash-flow CLOs.