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

The Securities and Exchange Commission is likely to issue the long-awaited final ruling of Regulation AB II at an open meeting in February, according to former Chairman Christopher Cox.

The qualified mortgage rule hasn’t dissuaded some major banks to stop jumbo mortgage originations despite the increased risks tied to the product.

Ford Motor Credit Co. priced its $1.6 billion prime auto loan securitization some basis points tighter than its last deal to print in 2013.

The sale represents around 2% of Wells Fargo’s total residential servicing portfolio as of the end of fourth quarter 2013.

Participants at an ABS Vegas 2014 panel struggled to explain how private label RMBS could become relevant to a broader range of U.S. consumers, although they took pains to sound optimistic.

GM Financial is taking advantage of the resulting spread compression to start securitization leases (both prime and subprime) and dealer inventory financing.

The protection commercial mortgage-backed securities sellers must provide in order to obtain higher ratings for their bonds is likely to cost them even more going forward, said Fitch Ratings.

Michael Stegman, a counselor to the Treasury Secretary on housing finance, said the GSEs' recent profitability was misleading and does not lessen the need for housing finance reform.

Alexandra Margolis joins Nixon Peabody as partner in the firm’s Commercial & Structured Finance practice.

Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), part of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, made three appointments to its structured products team in New York.