SFIG is the latest securitization voice to join opposition against eminent domain. The group filed a brief today in support of Wells Fargo’s lawsuit to stop the City of Richmond, California from seizing mortgage loans under the plan.

FINRA’s planto disseminate pricing on after-market transactions in asset-backed securities through TRACE should transform the market.

I advocate a new approach to reform: breaking up the rating agency oligopoly.

Two Ohio utility rate reduction bonds that priced this summer rekindle a debate as to the appropriate benchmark for these securities.

A longstanding leading issuer of munis, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) took an entirely new approach to the capital markets this past July: a catastrophe bond.

Proposed changes to GAAP could make it less attractive to lease large equipment, but more attractive to securitize leases

Freddie Mac takes the first step in shifting mortgage default risk to the private sector.

The proposed alignment of the qualified residential mortgage rule with existing mortgage risk retention standards will ease the underwriting and securitization of prime borrower loans but are the rules too lenient on borrowers?

Brigade Capital Management is issuing its first collateralized loan obligation of the year.

Volkswagen extended its Driver auto loan securitization franchise into the French market via the €491 million ($650M)Driver France FCT Compartiment 2013-1 transaction.

John Deere priced $849 million of notes backed by equipment installment sale contracts,