Lending analytics firm Orchard Platform has cut a deal with alternative small-business lender Kabbage to allow institutions to invest in the latter's relatively new line of consumer loans.

Citigroup is lining up the latest in what is becoming a long list of CMBS conduits with highly levered loans with very little amortization, creating the potential for big problems down the line.

Ally Financial priced a $986.60 million auto lease securitization, adding to what has been a busy first quarter for this sector.

Higher credit enhancement did not necessarily pay off for Wells Fargo in its latest commercial mortgage securitization.

One of Florida's state-run property insurers will explore using a combination of bonds and private reinsurance to cut costs and support financing needs for this year's and future hurricane seasons.

Freddie Mac upsized its latest offering of risk-sharing notes, demonstrating investor demand for the first loss position when homeowners stop making mortgage payments.

The latest securitization of reperforming residential mortgages offers investors less protection against future losses than the previous deal, and has earned correspondingly lower safety scores from Fitch Ratings.

Investors who want the troubled Ocwen Financial to stop servicing their mortgage-backed securities should think again, according to Morgan Stanley.

Facing costs incurred by this winter’s mega-snow, Boston’s MBTA might consider catastrophe bonds as a hedge against future damage.

Commercial mortgage-backed securities servicers have held on to real-estate owned properties for longer than usual, which could lead to a reversal in the declines in liquidations seen recently, according to a Fitch Ratings study.

Houston's Galleria Mall showed among the property securing a second commercial mortgage securitization in as many weeks.