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Risky mortgage lending may have triggered the financial crisis, but final risk retention rules go much easier on mortgages than securitizations of other kinds of assets.

U.S. regulators finalized a securities risk retention rule on Tuesday designed to set the stage for the future of the secondary mortgage market.

Regulators are finally ready to unveil a final risk retention rule, but whether the new regulation provides enough certainty to jumpstart the mortgage securitization market is an open question.

Regulators will unveil a long-awaited final rule next week that requires lenders to retain some of the risk for loans they securitize, a critical part of the Dodd-Frank Act that the agencies have struggled to implement.

Which opinion is more reliable: A well-informed one tainted by financial arrangements or one free of such conflicts but based on limited data — and possibly colored by spite?

Some participants at the ABS East conference sponsored by Information Management Network are not convinced transparency will boost liquidity.

Bonds backed by auto loans are widely viewed as the most liquid sector of the asset backed market, according to a survey at the ABS East Conference, sponsored by Information Management Network

Participants at the ABS East conference don’t expect asset-backed securities or other kinds of structured finance to change hands online anytime soon.

BANIF Banco Internacional do Funchal S.A plans to place €875 million ($1.12B) of securities backed by a pool of current accounts and term loans that BANIF granted to Portuguese self-employed and small and midsize enterprises (SMEs).

Issuance of European syndicated corporate leveraged loans stands at record $53.7 billion for the year to date, according to Dealogic.

On Wednesday the Securitization and Exchange Commission will consider whether to adopt rules revising the disclosure, reporting and offering process for all things asset-backed.

European collateralized loan obligations underperformed other types of securitization in the region in the first half of 2014, but Barclays expects CLOs to catch up on some of the ground they lost.

At an IMN conference, Tom Finke laid into a recent article in Fortune likening CLOs to both CDOs and troublemaking legacy RMBS. His message is CLO pros have to be better self-advocates.

Barclays analysts believe the regulators will find it hard to ignore a call last week by the European Central Bank (ECB) and Bank of England (BoE) to ease the rules governing securitization activity in Europe.

Creating a one-size-fits-all approach to collateralized loan obligations does not harm Wall Street, it harms American businesses.

The latest update to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act appears to grandfather most collateralized loan obligations issued before January 2013.

The Structured Finance Industry Group wants more time to evaluate proposed revisions to rules governing reporting and disclosure requirements for asset-backed securities.