CDOs/CLOs

Securitization professionals spent most of last week networking at Information Management Network's ABS East conference, virtually silencing their trading floors at home offices. Out of an expected $14 billion in issuance, less than $300 million in deals priced by press time.

City night life, beaches - and oh, yes, cutting edge securitization business - await delegates at Information Management Network's upcoming inaugural Spring ABS 2007 in South Beach, Florida. Commencing on April 29 and running for four days, the spring conference will focus on pressing issues facing investors and issuers.

Orlando, Fla - Practices for assembling and implementing quality control on home equity loan pools are shifting dramatically on Wall Street, putting more onus on investors - and dealers sometimes - to do more due diligence on the ABS pools that they are interested in buying.

Orlando, Fla. - If the Starbucks coffee didn't wake up delegates who attended the early morning economist roundtable at Information Management Network's ABS East conference held here last week, then the lively interaction between panelists and their optimistic economic outlooks certainly did.

Orlando, Fla.- ABS analysts, traders and deal managers at Information Management Network's ABS East conference held here last week got into deep discussions about complex deal structures, regulatory issues and industry moving trends. But delegates for the session on first-time issuers got a thorough introduction to the workings of the asset securitization market, and what issues lay ahead as they tap the specialized form of financing.

Orlando, Fla. - Regulation AB was obviously the talk of the town at the Information Management Network ABS East conference held here last week. Delegates were swarming to the sessions to catch up on the latest developments. To demonstrate demand, for the Sunday sessions alone, three panels were devoted exclusively to the subject matter.

Orlando, Fla. - Issuers who want to bring new or esoteric asset classes to market should consult with rating agencies early on in the process, according to participants at the twelfth annual Information Management Network ABS East conference held here last week. These points were made at the panel entitled Bringing New Asset Types to Market: Challenges and Potential, Pitfalls for New Issuers'.

Orlando, Fla. - Although the participants at the opening panel of IMN's conference were generally predicting a dip in ABS volume for 2007 - from 5% to 10% - they said that derivative product will drive issuance going forward.

Full Credit to Book (Equal if Joint) U.S. Public ABS Market/144A Market Managers Proceeds (mils) Rank Mkt. Share # of Issues JP Morgan 10,765.7 1 15.9 22 Citigroup 10,080.4 2 14.9 17 Wachovia Corp 9,764.8 3 14.2 16 Barclays Capital 6,578.7 4 9.7 10 Deutsche Bank AG 5,934.7 5 8.8 14 Banc of America Securities LLC 4,438.3 6 6.6 8 Credit Suisse 4,066.8 7 6.0 8 Royal Bank of Scotland Group 3,644.0 8 5.4 8 HSBC Holdings PLC 3,227.9 9 4.8 4 Goldman Sachs & Co 2,872.7 10 4.2 5 Industry Total 68,969.0 - 100.0 76 Source: Thomson Financial

Full Credit to Book (Equal if Joint) U.S. Public ABS Market/144A Market Managers Proceeds (mils) Rank Mkt. Share # of Issues Merrill Lynch & Co Inc 35,427.1 1 13.4 50 Citigroup 29,656.9 2 11.2 52 Deutsche Bank AG 24,881.0 3 9.4 51 UBS 22,068.1 4 8.4 57 Credit Suisse 18,207.8 5 6.9 27 Banc of America Securities LLC 16,565.1 6 6.3 35 Wachovia Corp 16,268.4 7 6.2 39 Bear Stearns & Co Inc 14,487.7 8 5.5 29 Morgan Stanley 13,961.5 9 5.3 57 JP Morgan 12,849.1 10 4.9 33 Industry Total 263,848.4 - 100.0 526 Source: Thomson Financial