RMBS

The Structured Finance Industry Group (SFIG) Las Vegas conference scheduled for Jan., is on track to be the largest securitization event of 2014 with an anticipated 5000 attendees.

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 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.

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.

Paragon Mortgages, the specialist U.K. buy-to-let (BTL) lender, said it plans to do two securitizations per year, with the next deal planned for spring 2014.