Macquarie Bank plans to issue $350 million of securities backed by a pool of Australian auto loans and leases.

Morgan Stanley plans to offer $545 million of securities backed by five large loans.

Issuance volume of asset-backed securities for the year through Feb. 27, 2015.

Asset-backed securities that priced in the two weeks ended Feb. 27, 2015.

American Homes 4 Rent’s latest transaction, AH4R SFR 2015-1, deals with one of the biggest risks inherent in single- family rental bonds: balloon repayment risk.

Ocwen Financial Corp., the mortgage servicer under attack for its handling of home loans, is being fired from overseeing debt backing two bond deals, according to notices sent to bondholders.

Volkswagen priced an upsized $1.45 billion auto lease securitization and Hyundai is prepping to launch $964 million of securities backed by the asset class.

The U.S. collateralized loan obligation market is off to a slower-than-expected start, and this is causing market participants to lower their expectations for 2015 as a whole.

Weak commodity prices are creeping up as a concern in agricultural equipment lease securitizations.

Two more subprime auto lenders, Westlake Financial Services and Flagship Credit Acceptance, are making their first trips of the year to the securitization market.

Morgan Stanley is securitizing the senior portion of a $300 million loan secured by the Graybar Building located on 420 Lexington Ave in New York City.

The Blackstone Group and TPG Special Situations Partners-owned U.K. specialty lender Kensington Group is marketing a £360 million ($554 million) securitization of nonconforming U.K. mortgages.