Tim Keast, will join Situs as executive managing director. He will head a new division, focused on due diligence and risk advisory for residential, consumer, SME and other structured finance products.

Marriott sold $240 million of bonds backed by timeshare loans in what has otherwise been a quiet week of ABS issuance.

Deutsche Bank is remarketing a U.K. CMBS backed by the Westfield shopping center after having pulled the deal in early August.

The subprime credit card business is beginning to bounce back to life after a six-year slump.

JMP Group, the investment banking and alternative asset management firm, has closed on its second collateralized loan obligation since the financial crisis

The departure of "Bond King" Bill Gross from Pimco could cause a sell-off in tobacco bonds backed by the Master Settlement Agreement.

Winwater Mortgage Loan Trust, a conduit formed in 2013, is planning its second $276.9 million residential mortgage securitization.

View Thomson Reuters data on issuance for the year to date through September 26, 2014.

Which opinion is more reliable: A well-informed one tainted by financial arrangements or one free of such conflicts but based on limited data — and possibly colored by spite?

ReadyCap Commercial plans to issue a securitization of its small balance commercial mortgage loans, according to a DBRS presale report.

The volume of securitization tranches that have earned the label of Prime Collateralised Securities (PCS) has topped €100 billion ($127 billion), according to a release from the eponymous organization.

Another rash of Sears and affiliate Kmart closings are planned, at least six of which will impact existing CMBS deals, either directly because the stores are a part of collateral backing the deals, or indirectly because the closures will damp mall business.