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Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA) has called for greater regulatory scrutiny of the asset class as a second deal for American Homes 4 Rent is prepped to come to market.

Ally Financial has upsized an offering of notes backed by automotive dealer financing to $1 billion from $671.14 million originally, according to a regulatory filing.

Changes to Turkey’s covered bond legislation are supportive of the credit ratings on these instruments, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

The rising costs for banks to hold even low-risk, short-term loans — courtesy of Basel III — is a powerful incentive for them to offload their trade finance receivables into securitizations.

Players in the REO-to-Rental space see a bright future in pooling the cash flows of many operators into conduit transactions.

Investors speaking at a panel at ABS Vegas offered a variety of views on investment opportunities this year.

Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), part of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, made three appointments to its structured products team in New York.

View the year-to-date manager rankings through Jan. 24 for the different ABS sectors, including real estate, credit cards and autos.

Standard & Poor's expects a modest increase in the issuance of European securitizations sold to investors this year from 2013.

First-time collateralized loan obligation managers entered the game in droves in 2013, and participants don’t expect the trend to slow down in 2014, even if risk-retention regulation on the horizon will make it more difficult for smaller firms to keep playing.

Final rules implementing the Volcker Rule remove many obstacles to securitization compared with the initial version.

The trade group penned an emphatic comment letter against Finra's proposal to disseminate pricing data for asset-backeds. The main argument? Loss of liquidity.

U.K. bank Lloyds priced its first covered bond since 2012 at the tight end of guidance.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s (Finra) proposal to disseminate pricing data for asset-backed securities faces push back from a major industry trade group, SIFMA.

Final rules implementing the Volcker Rule remove many obstacles to securitization compared with the initial version.

The country could begin issuing under its new covered bonds legislation as soon as the law comes into force in March 2014, according to Fitch Ratings.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has proposed to relax securitization capital charges will lead to “meaningful reductions” in capital requirements.

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