Morningstar thinks that there is a way to stop issuers of asset-backed securities from shopping around for the best ratings: compel them to publicly disclose the level of credit enhancement required by each rating agency for each tranche.

JP Morgan expects issuance of commercial mortgage bonds to continue to rise in 2015 to $105 billion, ahead heavy refinancing of existing deals.

Issuance of ABS, MBS and CMBS for the year through November 7, 2014.

Asset-backed deals that priced the two weeks ended November 7, 2014.

Investors in catastrophe bonds are broadening their exposure by taking on multiple perils and increasing the time period during which claims can be included in coverage.

Colony Mortgage Capital plans to finance its next pool of levered loans in a capital markets transaction dubbed Colony 2014-FL2.

AmeriCredit Financial Services, a unit of General Motors, is marketing $1 billion of bonds backed by subprime auto loan receivables, according to Standard & Poor’s.

Cronos Containers increased its latest container lease securitization, CRNN 2014-2, by $50 million and priced the bonds on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the deal

The securitization world may be buzzing over P2P but it’s still only one lender, Social Finance, that has issued rated deals.

Freddie Mac is growing its single-family business and taking market share from its fellow government-sponsored enterprise Fannie Mae.

Ocwen Financial could end up dishing out nearly three times the $100 million special reserve it set aside to resolve allegations it mistreated mortgage borrowers.

Redwood Trust plans to sell Fannie Mae $1.1 billion worth of loans, on which the REIT will absorb the first 1% of credit losses.