CDOs

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday took another step in its effort to scale down a controversial bond buying program by an additional $10 billion.

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.

Alcentra is marketing a €413.5 Million European collateralized loan obligation.

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

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

How peer-to-peer lending could ripple through securitization of consumer and corporate debt.

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.

He's now heading the firm's efforts in developing clients. McPherson had previously left NewOak several months after participating in its late-2008 launch.

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

U.S. ABS securitization issuance was $180 billion in 2013, down 3% from 2012, according to Thomson Reuters data.

First-time collateralized loan obligation managers entered the game in droves in 2013, and participants expect the trend to continue in 2014, even if risk-retention regulation will make it more difficult for smaller firms to keep playing.

The final version allows banks to own and lend money to collateralized loan obligations backed exclusively by loans, though they may have to sell holdings of deals backed by bonds or other securities.

Issuers had engaged Standard & Poor’s to rate 32 collateralized loan obligations totaling $14.8 billion as of Nov. 29.

Vichara Technologies is collaborating with Markit to allow mutual clients to access Markit’s pricing service within Vichara’s platform.

Wells Fargo expects U.S. issuance of collateralized loan obligations to moderate in 2014, to $60 billion, partly as the result of regulations that make it less attractive to manage or own these securities

The limited number of buyers able to write big tickets allows them players to dictate terms.

The limited number of buyers able to write big tickets allows them players to dictate terms.

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.

Barclays expects issuance of collateralized loan obligations in 2014 to be similar to this year’s total, in the range of $75 billion to $80 billion.