Wells Fargo is marketing a $449 million floating rate CMBS transaction backed by 25 loans.

Volkswagen is in the market with a $1 billion securitization of auto loan receivables – the issuer’s first of 2014.

Standard & Poor's believes Congress will renew the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (TRIPRA) but there is a risk that if scaled back enough, it would create credit and liquidity issues for CMBS, in the same way that letting the policy lapse would.

Vornado Realty Trust’s plan to spin off 81 strip shopping centers and four malls into a new publicly traded real estate investment trust won’t cause an “immediate credit fallout” for bonds exposed to these properties, said Barclays analysts in a report.

Some lenders in the subprime auto-loan space appear to be raising their underwriting standards, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

The three straight week lull in CMBS issuance will be followed an active period that should boost issuance volumes closer to beginning of the year forecasts.

Standard & Poor’s has cut its forecast for the issuance of non-agency mortgage-backed securities this year by a steep 40%.

In some U.S. states, the lengthy and costly foreclosure timeline on loans in legacy, private-label mortgage bonds, has outweighed the benefits of home price gains.

Former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair took private investors to task last week, arguing that their failure to understand and manage mortgage-market risk helped bring about the financial crisis.

Sallie Mae is still interested in adding to its holdings of Federal Family Education Loan Program loans, even if it took a pass on a $3.6 billion portfolio that CIT sold to Nelnet this month.

The vacancy rate for properties backing Blackstone’s Invitation Homes single-family rental securitization declined to 6.5% in February, from 8% in January.

Kubota Credit Corp. priced its inaugural term securitization, a $300 million transaction backed by agricultural, construction and turf equipment loans.