Blame the sullen headlines and not the performance and issuance forecast for the sparse attendance at this year’s Student loans ABS panel at ABS Vegas.

Former Congressman Barney Frank, co-author of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, is not opposed to changes in the eponymous legislation, but in some cases he thinks the rules should be tightened, rather than loosened.

California mortgage broker Logan Mohtashami says the most popular product he arranged last year were second-lien, or piggyback loans — a variety of mortgages that banks stopped making when the housing market blew up.

Turnover in the securitization market means some industry players, just arriving at the space, may not remember the lessons learned from the financial crisis.

The upcoming ABCP regulations which panelists coined as the “Wheel of Torture” doesn’t reflect the fact that for the last seven years, ABCP has been a plain vanilla product,

panelists at IMN's ABS Vegas conference see potential for more commercial PACE and aircraft lease securitization.

Issuance volume of ABS, RMBS and CMBS for the year through February 6, 2015.

View asset-backed securities that priced in the two weeks ended February 6, 2015.

Used car prices are inevitably headed lower, according to Fitch Ratings, but that's unlikely to impact bonds backed by auto loans.

Ally increased its two series of dealer floorplan notes to a total of $625 million from $500 million.

The CMBS pipeline cleared four deals this week ahead of the ABS Vegas industry conference, which kicks off this Sunday.

Sandler O’Neill + Partners, an investment bank that caters to financial services companies, is getting into the commercial mortgage securitization business.