American Securitization Forum
Financial ServicesNew York, United States11-50 Employees
The American Securitization Forum is the securitization industry’s unifying forum, converting ideas into action to enhance and improve the securitization market. Our membership encompasses all aspects of the industry, including issuers, investors, financial intermediaries, rating agencies, legal and accounting firms, trustees, servicers, guarantors, and other market participants. We advocate the securitization industry’s interests in various market practice, legal, accounting, tax, regulatory, legislative and policy issues. We also build consensus, coordinates advocacy efforts, and informs and educates the securitization community and related constituencies on issues of broad importance to the industry. Our principal goals are as follows: 1) to build consensus within the U.S. securitization industry on issues of broad importance to the industry; 2) to mount principled and focused efforts to advance the ASF’s substantive positions, chiefly by interacting with appropriate governmental, regulatory, accounting, legislative and other policy-making bodies; and 3) to inform and educate the securitization community and related constituencies, and to sponsor substantive, high-quality conferences and educational programs.