Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac filed paperwork Monday to merge the two companies' securitization platforms into a single unit, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

It was predictable that ABS East would be rife with criticism of how eminent domain is being used by local governments to seize mortgages.

CIT Asset Management is preparing a rare sterling-denominated CLO, according to a presale report published by Standard & Poor’s.

Don't listen to the noise about a growing bubble in housing, said ABS East participants. There's plenty of reasons to believe there's nothing of the sort.

Clayton Holdings said Dan Pinero is the director of operations and Joe Oxment is the director for client services of the firm's expanded securitization group.

Issuance of bonds backed by aircraft leases is likely to increase as commercial airlines rely more heavily on leasing to finance new aircraft, according to Fitch Ratings.

Deutsche Bank is collaborating with Bloomberg on a new option adjusted spread model for agency mortgage backed securities and collateralized mortgage backed securities.

American consumers continue to shed debt and cut down on their late payments - with the notable exception of student loans. But does this mean that originations are going to rev up soon?

Fannie Mae stepped up to bat with a rated version of therisk share security first introduced to the market in July by Freddie Mac. Fitch Ratings assigned the deal ‘BBB-’.

Springleaf plans to issue its third subprime RMBS of the 2013. The latest deal is sized at $344.2 million, according to a Standard & Poor’s presale report.

ABN Amro announced a 5-year, €500 million ($367 million) prime Dutch RMBS from its Dolphin Master Issuer program.

The European Central Bank said at a press conference on Wednesday that it was considering accepting mezzanine securitization tranches as eligible repo collateral.