After a quiet close to 2014, the securitization pipeline looks set to rev up again with a $1.6 billion auto lease deal to be issued by Mercedes-Benz Financial Services USA LLC’s (MBFS).

Leading commercial real estate lenders expect loan volume in 2015 to top 2014, driven by refinancing of maturing debt and strong market fundamentals.

Total issuance of ABS, MBS, and CMBS for full-year 2014.

Asset-backed securities that priced in the two weeks ended Jan. 2

American Homes 4 Rent, the largest publicly traded investor in single-family rental homes, has acquired a pool of properties from a subsidiary of Michael Vranos' Ellington Management Group, in what could be a sign of further consolidation in the asset class.

DBRS announced that its assigned ratings to LEAF Commercial Capital’s only equipment lease securitization issued in 2014.

Ocwen Financial, operating under a settlement with New York's banking regulator that restricts its servicing portfolio acquisitions, is looking at its old private-label mortgage securities as a new profit center.

Reporting of principal forbearance losses in residential mortgage-backed securities is not reported consistently from servicer to servicer, according to Fitch.

The storm, which made landfall near Cabo San Lucas in Mexico on Sept. 15, had threatened holders of $100 million of MultiCat Mexico Ltd. (Series 2012-1) Class C notes with a 50% loss of their principal.

RMBS deals with high New York state concentrations, serviced by Ocwen face additional modification activity that could disrupt cash flow to the bonds, according to a Moody’s Investors Service report.

A judge has named Deerwood Bank winner of the bankruptcy auction for American Bank of St. Paul, in the first test of involuntary bankruptcy as a means of resolving trust-preferred debt.