The continued difficulty of acquiring repossessed, single-family homes to rent on a significant scale makes it unlikely that these assets will be securitized this year.

Whatever the program's intentions, it is wrong to believe that the GSEs would not be financially damaged by the proposed program.

Spreads draw investors back even as deal terms loosen.

Paris-based independent cooperative finance firm Groupe GIAC arranged the €80 million cash transaction. GIAC provides long-term financing to French companies.

This month ASR tackles a wide range of topics, from thorny issues such as regulations and eminent domain to the delayed onset of securitization of REO-to-rent homes.

MBS prepayment numbers for August are expected to jump, in part because of an increased number of days on which mortgage holders can finalize a refinancing. The market is projected to see the opposite effect in September, which will have fewer such days.

Euro market participants are wary of regulations they say might stop funding of the real economy

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.

The CMBS market may get a turbo boost early next year, when an updated benchmark will enable market participants to more effectively hedge positions.

The Global Financial Markets Association said that it supports IOSCO's efforts to analyze industry initiatives on risk retention, transparency and disclosure standardization.