Finance

Neil Odom-Haslett will join Standard Life Investments as head of commercial real estate lending in August and will lead the company's entry into the U.K. commercial real-estate market.

Interest rates on Federal Direct Subsidized Loans today doubled to 6.8% from 3.4%; but the higher rates won’t have too much of an impact on securitization deals backed by these loans.

Investors at an S&P roundtable said that differences among mortgage-backeds in the caliber of their rep and warranty providers has't translated into differences in deal pricings.

Fitch Ratings today released its analysis of GSE historical mortgage loan-level credit performance data to help investors looking into the upcoming “credit-sensitive” securitization proposals by Freddie Mac.

Improving liquidity in the broader financial markets failed to stem the widening in spreads on asset-backed securities last week, according to J.P. Morgan.

Guggenheim Securities is marketing $350 million of aircraft lease backed securitties according to a Standard and Poor's.

Credit Suisse plans to securitize the residual interest on a legacy private student loan ABS in its latest deal called Credit Suisse ABS Repackaging Trust 2013-A (2013-A).

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

Ongoing litigation may clarify on the responsibilities of trustees in residential mortgage backed securities, but market participants aren't waiting around to find out.

Roughly in step with other markets, structured finance pricing and issuance in June was governed by questions of how quickly the Federal Reserve would rein in its asset-buying spree.

Delayed draw features, which allow CLO managers to avoid paying noteholders until deals are invested, have gained momentum.

Credit Suisse issuing $407.123 million residental mortgage-backed securitization. Standard and Poor's assigned ratings to the deal called CSMC Trust 2013-IVR4.

The Structured Finance Industry Group (SFIG) has hired Falcon Capital Advisors and Boulder Advisors to help it attract new members and pursue its legislative agenda.

A policy fight is threatening the recovery of collateralized loan obligations [CLOs] in Europe.

Could higher yields end up deepening the investor base for asset-backeds?

Shellpoint Partners LLC, the home lender founded by mortgage-bond pioneer Lewis Ranieri, priced its first securitization after restructuring the senior tranche on the back of investor requests.

Ongoing litigation may clarify on the responsibilities of trustees in residential mortgage backed securities, but market participants aren't waiting around to find out.

Regulators have been trying to price Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of their dominant shares of the secondary market for home loans. After a pair of giant price increases, the strategy may soon bear fruit.

Roughly in step with other markets, structured finance pricing and issuance in June was governed by questions of how quickly the Federal Reserve would rein in its asset-buying spree.

Delayed draw features, which allow CLO managers to avoid paying noteholders until deals are invested, have gained momentum.