Presale reports are out on the first jumbo securitization for FirstKey Mortgage LLC, a new player in the market linked to Cerberus, an investor in pre-downturn jumbo securities market participants such as ResCap.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro is trying to restart the debate over the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

?TAL International is readying a $266 million container lease securitization, its third of the year.

The boost in issuance over the coming two months is expected to bring conduit gross issuance to about $58 billion and single-asset/borrower gross issuance to about $33 billion, according to a Bank of America Merrill Lynch report.

CIT is preparing a $750 million securitization of small-ticket equipment leases, according to Standard & Poor’s.

American Honda Finance Corp. (AHFC) is in the market with a securitization of prime auto loans, according to a pre-sale report by Fitch Ratings.

Navient Closes on $10 Billion Asset -Based Commercial Paper Facility provided by Wells Fargo.

Synchrony Bank, formerly GE Capital Retail bank, increased its first credit card securitization, SYNCT 2014-1, by $264 million to $924 million.

B2R Finance announced today that it has hired Jason Hogg as Chief Executive Officer.

John Lapham, co-head of leveraged finance at PineBridge Investments, thinks that the ranks of CLO managers could start to thin well before risk retention rules take effect in 2016.

Santander Consumer USA is marketing its fifth auto loan securitization of the year.

First time issuer Gold Key Resorts is marketing $144 million of bonds backed by timeshare loan receivables.