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Denver-based Chotin Asset Management is in the market with a new collateralized debt obligation, a $1 billion hybrid mezzanine deal.

Washington Mutual plans to buy more individual mortgage loans for its securitization programs, in addition to the bulk buying it currently purchases.

A potential default by a German hybrid small, medium enterprise is making some waves in the European collateralized debt obligation market.

Aladdin Capital Management (UK), the London office of Aladdin Capital Management, is pre-marketing its first European collateralized loan obligation.

Dan Chambers, managing director at Fitch Ratings, will head Fitch’s new U.S. Structured Finance New Asset Group. Over the past year, Fitch has been reviewing a growing number of new asset types and innovative structures including pharmaceutical and film royalties, casinos and billboards and timber and other natural resources. The agency expects that the rate of growth in these and other areas will continue to accelerate in 2007, with volume projected to be up 30% or more over 2006.

The Ghermezian family, owners of the West Edmonton Mall, are tapping the asset-backed securities market to raise $600 million in a transaction that converts much of the mall’s equity into cash, according to the online news service globeandmail.com. The mall’s owners are raising the funds through the issuance of mortgages secured by the mall’s assets, according to a 227-page prospectus filed by Column Canada Issuer Corp., an affiliate of Column Canada Financial Corp., which is a Toronto-based company engaged in promoting structured financings for the Credit Suisse Group of Switzerland.

Opening up to nearly 7,000 attendees – a 40% increase over last year’s conference -- the American Securitization Forum has set up several new panels to address a growing and changing marketplace, said George Miller, the ASF’s executive director.

It’s officially on in Vegas. American Securitization Forum 2007 kicked off today with a handful of sessions and a lot of booth touring.

The conference keynote speaker, Elizabeth McCaul, will address several regulatory issues in her remarks, in particular that of due diligence conducted by issuers.

New entrants in the collateralized debt obligation market and factors that could throw a wrench in its phenomenal growth are two hot topics at ASF2007 this week.

Attendees of the American Securitization Forum's annual conference in Las Vegas will be all ears Tuesday morning, hoping to hear that the Securities and Exchange Commission will give them relief from an item in Reg AB that could translate into reams of required reports and serve as a potential cooler of what continues to be a red hot market.

The French structured finance arena is set for rejuvenation in 2007, after the market suffered its second consecutive year of decline in issuance in 2006.