Allonhill, Denver, recently laid off roughly 10 full-time appraisers because of a cutback by one of its mortgage clients, according to industry officials close to the matter.

Proceeds will refund the state’s $757 million tobacco securitization that sold last November to help the state wipe out a budget deficit.

Moody's has launched its unpublished monitored loan rating or UMLR service in the U.S. Its CLO methodology will treat the ratings under UMLR as identical to the agency's published ratings.

Multifamily and commercial mortgage loan provider Greystone has formed the Greystone Bassuk Group, a joint venture with The Bassuk Organization.

While Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac remained trapped in federal conservatorships, the two still dominate the mortgage market and little has been done to revive private lending. But that could be changing.

View year-to-date 2011 ABS issuance totals for ABS, MBS and CMBS.

View the year-to-date manager rankings for the different ABS sectors, including real estate, credit cards and autos.

See results from the Mortgage Bankers Association's Refinance and Purchase Indexes as well as the weekly mortgage rates surveyed by Freddie Mac.

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, delinquency rates are expected to rise in RMBS deals.

Speakers at information Management Network's ABS East who tackled the housing market harped on two topics hampering the comeback of private-label RMBS issuance.

One speaker at Information Management Network's ABS East detected a potential bubble forming in the auto subprime segment.

Speakers on a panel at Information Management Network's ABS East excpressed confidence that ABS pros will come around to the potential of environmental and social investing.