The Russian ruble is in freefall — it’s down more than 50% since January — and interest rates are climbing on the back of the Bank of Russia’s aggressive efforts to shore up the embattled currency.

The amount of commercial and multifamily mortgage debt outstanding rose to a record high in the third quarter, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association

George Kok is set to join Morgan Stanley as a managing director in the bank’s Commercial Real Estate lending group.

CIFC Asset Management is in the market with its fifth collateralized loan obligation of the year, according to Fitch Ratings.

If the Securities and Exchange Commission bans Standard & Poor’s from rating commercial mortgage backed securities, as it is reportedly planning to, bonds backed by a single, large asset would be hit disproportionately, according to J.P. Morgan.

Marketplace lender Social Finance may seek a larger initial public offering than initially planned, according to Chief Executive Mike Cagney.

NewDay, a newcomer to the U.K. securitization market, has priced £293 million of bonds backed by credit card receivables.

The impact of falling oil prices has extended beyond the debt of exploration and production companies to some of their biggest creditors - collateralized loan obligations.

Standard & Poor's may downgrade its credit ratings of seven U.K. CMBS transactions with exposure to Tesco if the supermarket operator's long- and short-term corporate credit ratings fall below investment grade.

Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Securities priced the super senior ten-year bond issued from the $1.1 billion conduit WFCM 2014-LC18, five basis point tight of the last deal that priced.

A bankruptcy court judge sunk investors' hopes in their latest lawsuit against Lehman Brothers, which they claim broke contracts in junk mortgage-backed securities sold during the bubble years.

New York's banking regulator has issued subpoenas to TD Bank and Santander over possible consumer abuses in the banks' subprime auto lending divisions.