Fitch Ratings see a growing risk of weaker enforcement of mortgage contracts in Spain.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is pushing for private student lenders and the government to help lower payments for borrowers after receiving thousands of complaints from consumers.

European collateralized loan obligations issued pre-financial crisis are nearing the end of their reinvestment periods, yet the maturities of the loans that serve as collateral continue to shift further out into the future.

The latest generation of European CLOs may expose investors to a risk that didn’t exist in most collateralized loan obligations issued before the financial crisis: fluctuations in foreign exchange rates.

The Structured Finance Industry Group’s first executive director hails from an issuer.

In late April, the Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) issued its first catastrophe bond; conditions it would seem are ripe for other emerging markets to follow suit.

With Global ABS around the corner, it’s only fitting that we turn our attention to Europe.

The commercial mortgage-backed securities market’s near miraculous turn around and the bonds’ plunging spreads, as well as indications of deteriorating credit quality, suggest buyers should beware.

A bipartisan group of senators led by Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., is drafting legislation designed to reform the housing finance system, including a plan to wind down the government-sponsored enterprises.

Issuance of securitizations of prime auto loans is falling short of the pace in 2012, a trend that analysts from Wells Fargo ascribe partly to a shift in consumer behavior from buying to leasing.

A large portfolio sale of collateralized debt obligations reportedly planned by Royal Bank of Scotland is set to test market appetite for non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities.

The Prime Collateralised Securities initiative, announced a year ago, has been adopted by issuers but it still gaining credibility with regulators.