Newbold Advisors has promoted Amy Creason to senior director of capital markets.

Cronos Containers is preparing a $207 million marine cargo container lease securitization, according to Standard & Poor’s.

Observer Capital’s first acquisition includes business-to-business publications Asset Securitization Report, Leveraged Finance News, Private Placement Letter, American Banker and the Bond Buyer.

UBS and Deutsche Bank are in the market with a $350 million of bonds collateralized by of a single loan secured by Westfield Montgomery, a super-regional mall in Bethesda, Maryland.

Morgan Stanley plans to issue $256.5 million in bonds backed 291 residential mortgages that were all originated by First Republic Bank.

Ocwen Financial Corp. is ramping up a venture that involves purchasing single-family loans out of old private-label residential mortgage-backed securities.

Led by Barclays, the deal is backed by the rights to the intellectual property and film materials linked to a portfolio of movies and TV series. A passive interest in The Lord of the Rings trilogy is also in the mix.

Deutsche Bank and Cantor Fitzgerald have teamed up for a $1.2 billion securitization of 68 commercial mortgage loans secured by 86 properties.

American Residential Properties may have to pay up for its inaugural single family home rental securitization if the widening trend, as evidenced in the latest Invitation Homes pricing, persists.

Trade association the Structured Finance Industry Group has released its first Green Paper, as part of its 3.0 RMBS initiative to revive the market for mortgage bonds

Two collateralized loan obligations totaling $887 million from KKR Financial Advisors and Saranac Advisory Ltd. have joined the new issue pipeline.