Under the credit risk retention rules adopted[1] pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank Act),[2] a single “sponsor” of a securitization[3] ...

In finance, it seems like nearly anything can be traded for profits. Securitization is the process of taking groups of assets, packaging them together, and selling them as interest-earning securities ...

With the long-awaited U.S. rules requiring a level of risk retention in securitizations recently going into effect, an added wrinkle has been created by a slight difference in how “U.S. person” is ...

If financing is the lifeblood of European small businesses, then the effect of the financial crisis was similar to a cardiac arrest. The flow of affordable credit from banks was choked off and small ...