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View the year-to-date manager rankings through Dec.27 for the different ABS sectors, including real estate, credit cards and autos.

Vichara Technologies is collaborating with Markit to allow mutual clients to access Markit’s pricing service within Vichara’s platform.

Wells Fargo expects U.S. issuance of collateralized loan obligations to moderate in 2014, to $60 billion, partly as the result of regulations that make it less attractive to manage or own these securities

The Dutch State Treasury will begin selling from its $11.6 billion portfolio of U.S. non-agency RMBS held in the state's Illiquid Assets Back-up Facility.

Concern is mounting among investors and analysts that Nationstar, Ocwen Financial and Walter Investment are getting so big so quickly that they are becoming too difficult to manage.

The swelling trillion-dollar student loan market is missing key data and regulations necessary to head off another financial crisis, according to Rohit Chopra, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s top official in charge of dealing with student loans.

The proposal would introduce dissemination of trade prices for securities ranging from highly liquid credit card and auto ABS to smaller and more esoteric deals in asset classes such as time shares, to commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and highly structured CDOs and collateralized loan obligations.

The proposal would introduce dissemination of trade prices for securities ranging from highly liquid credit card and auto ABS to smaller and more esoteric deals in asset classes such as time shares, to commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and highly structured CDOs and collateralized loan obligations.

Overall issuance growth will moderate in 2014, Fitch Ratings' managing director for asset backed securities says in the firm's outlook.

Overall issuance growth will moderate in 2014, Fitch Ratings' managing director for asset backed securities says in the firm's outlook.

The servicer has a reputation for aggressively writing down principal, often multiple times.

The servicer has a reputation for aggressively writing down principal, often multiple times.

The company has proven it's possible to obtain a credit rating for bonds backed by leases on rooftop panels -- but at a cost.

The company has proven it's possible to obtain a credit rating for bonds backed by leases on rooftop panels -- but at a cost.

The limited number of buyers able to write big tickets allows them players to dictate terms.

The limited number of buyers able to write big tickets allows them players to dictate terms.

How investors are still finding ways to play an asset class with a limited life span.

Data provider Lewtan has launched a service that provides information about loans used as collateral for European residential mortgage-backed securities and securitizations of loans to small and medium-sized enterprises.

At €10 billion, European CMBS maturities will slow down in 2014 compared to the €16 billion maturing in 2013; but loans will compete for refinancing opportunities with the backlog of existing specially serviced loans, according to Standard & Poor's.