The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago is moving closer to rolling out its mortgage conduit program for jumbo loans and a separate conduit for Ginnie Mae-eligible loans.

Final rules requiring sponsors of securitizations to retain “skin in the game” were published in the Federal Register today.

Amlin, a UK reinsurance company, has issued a $200 million catastrophe bond. The deal, Tramline Re II..

Commercial real estate lenders are quietly acknowledging regulators' fear of concentration risk by swapping out new loan pools with assets they didn’t underwrite themselves – and more often than not, they're paying a premium to do it.

European insurer and money manager AXA Group is in the market with its second U.S. collateralized loan obligation, according to rating agency reports.

Mortgage bond investors have little to fear from falling energy prices, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Ocwen Financial has agreed to pay $150 million to New York regulators to settle allegations that it fudged foreclosure documents.

In a report today, Moody’s Investors Service said that the outstanding volume of asset-backed commercial paper issued by U.S. conduits has risen for the first time since 2007, when the short-term securities slipped into a seemingly unstoppable decline.

Total issuance of ABS, CMBS and CDOs for the year through Dec. 19, 2014.

Asset-backed securities that priced in the two weeks ended Dec. 19, 2014.

Aldus Aviation priced a $540 million aircraft lease securitization; its first aircraft lease ABS called ATLAS Series 2014-1.