More than 6,000 securitization professionals descended on Las Vegas last week for the American Securitization Forum's flagship gathering at the Venetian Hotel. Among the hot topics were structuring derivatives around increasingly toxic mortgage bonds and investors looking to execute rapid trades in a market that has been until recently a buy-and-hold space. Reporter Nicoletta Kotsianasfiled these stories.
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