Moody’s Investors Service may soon require a fatter cushion against losses in the highest-quality notes in CMBS if issuers want a triple-A rating.

Asset-backed securities that priced in the two weeks ended April 17, 2015.

Wells Fargo priced $875.2 million of commercial mortgage backed securities in what has otherwise been a very quiet two weeks for conduit activity.

The Western Riverside Council of Governments is preparing its first securitization of Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) bonds of the year.

Freddie Mac has launched its initial offering of bonds with exposure to actual losses on mortgages that it ensures.

BofAMerrill analysts think the ECB could be a lot more aggressive in the securitization-purchasing program it launched last November.

Sallie Mae has priced all of the notes to be issued by SMB Private Education Loan Trust 2015-A, including $704 million of notes and the residual interest in the deal, valued at $50 million.

Consumers may see little change in the ultimate cost of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac loans despite a restructuring of certain loan fees announced Friday by the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Issuance of asset backed securities for the year through April 17, 2016

General Electric’s exit from most of its lending businesses could be bad news for both its borrowers and the investors who buy these loans and leases via the securitization market.

Ford Motor Credit is marketing its first auto lease securitization of the year, according to a presale report from Standard & Poor’s.

Low-income borrowers are responsible for much of the recent surge in student loan defaults and delinquencies, according to new research by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.