Shellpoint Partners LLC, the home lender founded by mortgage-bond pioneer Lewis Ranieri, priced its first securitization after restructuring the senior tranche on the back of investor requests.

Ongoing litigation may clarify on the responsibilities of trustees in residential mortgage backed securities, but market participants aren't waiting around to find out.

Regulators have been trying to price Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of their dominant shares of the secondary market for home loans. After a pair of giant price increases, the strategy may soon bear fruit.

Roughly in step with other markets, structured finance pricing and issuance in June was governed by questions of how quickly the Federal Reserve would rein in its asset-buying spree.

Why Sen. Al Franken’s (D-Min.) efforts at ratings agency reform are obstructed by a wall of denial.

Delayed draw features, which allow CLO managers to avoid paying noteholders until deals are invested, have gained momentum.

The trend of U.S. banks shifting their subprime mortgage servicing rights to non-bank, specialist servicers looks set to continue, according to a Fitch Ratings report.

The Carlyle Group issued a $461.5 million collateralized loan obligation dubbed Carlyle Global Market Strategies 2013-3, according to a Standard & Poor’s presale report.

Wall Street thinks it has a found a solution to jumpstart the dormant market for private-label mortgage-backed securities: bring a third-party reviewer to determine who is on the hook for bad loans.

Trimaran Advisors, a wholly-owned subsidy of KCAP Financial, is planning a $426.3 million collateralized loan obligation called Catamaran CLO 2013-1.

U.S. prime auto ABS, backed by both leases and loans, have experienced robust performance; but the subprime sector has not shared the same fate.

More volatile market conditions may keep most credit card securitization issuers out of the market but maturing 2008 vintage bonds could refinance once the market improves.