he amount of commercial mortgage debt maturing is set to spike this year, when loans taken out during the height of the real estate bubble start coming due.

Trepp reported that December US CMBS delinquencies fell by another 5 basis points to 5.75%. In all, delinquencies in the year fell by 168 basis points from 7.43% in December 2013.

John Olert, formerly the chief credit officer at Fitch Ratings, has been named group chief risk officer, a newly created position for Fitch Group, according to a press release.

Mortgage lenders are hoping the new Republican-controlled Congress is going to be more receptive to making changes to the "qualified mortgage" rule.

BMW Financial Services is marketing $1 billion of securities backed by auto lease receivables issued from BMW Vehicle Lease Trust 2015-1.

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.