Securitization

Wells Fargo said in a report today that without an increase in credit cards and student loan deals, the securitization volume of consumer assets aren’t likely to grow either.

Barclays priced its first deal issued this year from the bank’s Dryrock credit card securitization trust.

Goldman Sachs is in the market with a $675 million CMBS backed by a loan that is secured by the borrower’s fee interest in a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The State of Washington is planning to issue $344.39 million of bonds backed by tobacco settlement revenues, according to a presale report by Standard & Poor’s.

Ratings agency reports are reassuring investors that, in some cases, transfers of mortgage servicing rights from one servicer to another do not have a negative impact on mortgage-backed securities.

What's keeping private-label RMBS investors up at night, and what could attract more capital, setting the stage for a broader recovery.

Direct Capital Corporation plans to issue a $181 million securitization of equipment lease backed notes.

Morgan Stanley and Bank of America will issue a $1.3 billion CMBS conduit that has been assigned preliminary rating by Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA).

Extraordinary expenses in RMBS transactions could either expose senior RMBS bondholders to losses or the structure to ratings volatility, depending on how they are paid, according to a Kroll Bond Rating Agency report.

ACIS Capital Management is prepping a $849.43 million collateralized loan obligation, according to a presale report from Standard & Poor’s.

Barclays plans to market the first deal issued this year from the bank’s credit card securitization trust called Dryrock.

Through bitter experience, bond purchasers learned about the moral hazard embedded in private RMBS and their grossly inadequate legal protections.

investors must be cautious about privately issued securities in a post-GSE era where the underlying loans are subjected to a particular lender’s underwriting and sourcing processes.

A mortality bond from SCOR Global Life had a low attachment point, which is the threshold at which investors start incurring losses. That could attract more issuers.

Collateralized loan obligation managers and arrangers have long argued that they should not be subject to the requirements to retain “skin in the game” of these deals. CLOs, which are backed by below investment grade corporate loans, didn’t contribute to the financial crisis, the argument goes, and they shouldn’t have to pay the price for it.

What's keeping private-label RMBS investors up at night, and what could attract more capital, setting the stage for a broader recovery.

Regulators have granted collateralized loan obligations an exception to risk retention rules, but it's a no-go

A nascent private bond market in France is expected to grow significantly over the next two years,

But a recent $180-million deal providing coverage for SCOR Global Life shows that bond investors are now willing to accept a lower attachment point