The billionaire George Soros is preparing to back the peer-to-peer lending industry, which is increasingly leaning on traditional capital sources to cheapen funding costs.

J.G. Wentworth has completed a $207.5 million of securities backed by structured settlement receivables in its third transaction of 2014.

The Loan Syndications and Trading Associations is asking a D.C. Court of Appeals to suspend the final risk retention rule approved by regulators last month.

The risk that the failure to refinance a loan collateralizing a single-family rental (SFR) securitization would cascade into a “widespread” decline in property prices is low, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

If the European Central Bank wants to provide more capital relief to Eurozone banks through its securitization-buying scheme than banks would get by holding on to their assets, it will have to snap up mezzanine tranches as well.

India's Essar Steel has closed a $1 billion securitization of export receivabler in a bid to term out its liabilities and swap rupee debt into dollars.

Credit Suisse’s DLJ Mortgage Capital is marketing a reperforming mortgage loan securitization deal, called RPMLT 2014-1.

There’s not much time left, but Newtek is prepping its first small business loan securitization of the year.

American Homes 4 Rent priced its third securitization transaction.

Navient priced its upsized $1 billion Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) securitization.

Wells Fargo and Royal Bank of Scotland priced a $900 million CMBS conduit, WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2014-C25.

Investors are demanding higher spreads on risk-sharing deals issued by Fannie Mae under its Connecticut Avenue Series (CAS) label.