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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.

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.

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