Educational Services of America is marketing $302 million of securities backed entirely by rehabilitated Federal Family Education Loan Program Stafford, PLUS, SLS and consolidation student loans.

Fannie Mae’s latest risk sharing transaction taps a new source of private capital: reinsurers.

Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Merrill Lynch priced $1.3 billion of commercial mortgage backed securities issued from MSBAM 2014-C19 conduit.

California Republic Bank priced $325 million of bonds backed by prime auto loans, its fourth securitization of the year, according to a regulatory filing.

First National plans to issue a$90mn tax lien securitization backed by a pool of tax liens on real estate properties in Florida, Illinois and South Carolina, according to Kroll Bond Rating.

New Residential Mortgage is marketing $503 million of bonds backed by mostly re-performing residential mortgages.

Securitization is likely to absorb the $347 billion of commercial mortgages set to mature in the next three years.

While municipal efforts to use eminent domain to seize homeowners' underwater mortgages have subsided, the issue is still a concern for many mortgage bond market participants.

Top restructuring officials have endorsed the right of secured creditors to use their liens on borrowers' assets as currency in “363” corporate bankruptcy sales.

Octagon Credit Investors took advantage of a dip in loan prices over the summer to quickly print a CLO at the request of one of its own investors, using the proceeds to snap up collateral, largely in the secondary market.

JP Morgan and Barclays are marketing $1.4 billion of securities backed by 69 commercial mortgage loans that are secured by 94 properties, according to Kroll Bond Rating

The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission is seeking to suspend Standard & Poor’s from grading commercial mortgage bonds in what would be the agency’s toughest action yet against a major credit rater, a person with knowledge of the matter said.