The chance of any housing finance reform bill moving in Congress this year — as well as in the foreseeable future — is now seriously in question after six key Democrats have apparently rejected the plan offered by Senate Banking Committee leaders.

View Thomson Reuters data on issuance for the year-to-date through May 9 for ABS, MBS and CMBS.

View the deals featured in ASR's Scorecard database that priced in the two weeks ended May 9.

Colony Financial, the real estate investment trust responsible for the second-ever securitization of single family rental properties, is also tapping the securitization market to fund investments in "transitional" commercial real estate.

Over $1.5 billion in auto loan securities was added to the pipeline this week via deals market by Porsche and Ally Bank, according to Standard & Poor's presale reports.

Assured Guaranty hopes to take advantage of a recent upgrade in its financial strength rating to resume offering insurance on future flow securitizations.

Wells Fargo and the Royal Bank of Scotland are planning a $980.2 million commercial mortgage securitization, according to a regulatory filing.

By agreeing to buy Clayton Holdings for $305 million, Radian Group is essentially betting that the private mortgage securitization market will make a comeback.

BofA and Chase have both priced credit card securitization deals worth a total of $2 billion.

A new funding alternative for energy efficiency lending could help the U.S. meet the $200 billion shortfall in financing to make homes more energy efficient.

Over the week ended May 6, the pipeline of collateralized loan obligations being rated by Standard & Poor’s decreased, to $11.87 billion, from $15.75 billion the previous week.

Hyundai priced $1.325 billion of securities backed by prime auto loans, according to a regulatory filing