Navient is preparing the first student loan securitization of 2015, the $689.0 million Navient Private Education Loan Trust 2015-A according to Fitch Ratings.

House lawmakers started the new year off divided on Wednesday, with Democrats ultimately defeating a package of financial services measures that included relief from a key Dodd-Frank Act rule.

Angelo Gordon & Co. has acquired at a discount $267 million in soured commercial mortgages from the commercial lender Bancorp Bank.

Dunkin' Brands, the parent company of Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins, plans to close its senior secured credit facility and replace it with a securitization.

Gebäudeversicherung Bern has issued its first catastrophe bond, according to GC Securities, the sole placement agent.

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).