As part of its asset backed securities purchasing program (ABSPP) launched in November, the ECB is buying portions of senior tranches and encouraging market investors to join in.

Investors want residential mortgage bonds backed by riskier loans.

WinWater Home Mortgage is preparing another plain-vanilla private label residential mortgage securitization.

Resource Capital plans to issue its first CRE CLO of this year which collateralizes a pool of 20 floating rate mortgage loans worth $346.2 million that are secured on commercial, multifamily and hospitality properties.

Bank of America is following Wells Fargo by putting out for sale the last of its federally guaranteed student loans; it may well repurchase them one day if they are securitized.

Bank of America is preparing to issue the year's first securitization of credit card receivables via its BA Credit Card Trust.

The Justice Department is seeking to advance a more-than-five-year probe into whether Moody's Investors Service inflated ratings during the U.S. housing boom, according to three people familiar with matter.

Opus Capital Markets Consultants (CMC), a leader in mortgage due diligence and a wholly owned subsidiary of Wipro Limited has hired William Shuey as director of securitization.

Ally plans to issue two transactions backed by dealer floorplan receivables during a week where primary securitization volumes were largely driven by the asset class.

JP Morgan and Barclays plan to securitize 44 commercial mortgage loans that total $836.5 million. The loans are secured by 91 properties.

Thomson Reuters data on issuance of ABS, RMBS and CMBS for the year through January 30, 2015.

Asset-backed securities that priced in the two weeks ended January 30, 2015.