Issuers of non-agency MBS will likely continue to favor private placements over registering deals with the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to industry participants. While publicly registered deals in the ABS market and commercial MBS market are common, no non-agency MBS issued in 2014 was registered with the SEC. Instead, non-agency MBS issuers offered deals as 144A private placements. An official involved in the non-agency MBS market said...