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.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has a $432.6 million large loan, floating-rate CMBS up next that is backed by the property types du jour: lodging and retail.

Over $10 billion of U.S. collateralized loan obligations priced in November, bringing issuance for the first nine months of the year to record $115.4 billion, according to Thomson Reuters.

Moody’s Investors Service expects a more diversified, larger Chinese securitization market in 2015, the rating agency said in a report today.

Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Securities is selling $1.1 billion of securities backed by 99 commercial mortgage loans on 117 of mostly retail and lodging properties.

Thomson Reuters data on issuance of U.S> ABS, MBS and CMBS for the year through December 5, 2014.

Asset backed securities that priced in the two weeks ended December 5, 2014.

Ally Bank’s next prime auto loan securitization offers a $1 billion helping of securities backed by weaker credit loans on new and used auto loans.