American International Group has issued $400 million of catastrophe bonds through its Tradewynd Re program.

The European Banking Authority will allow RMBS to be counted in the Liquidity Coverage Ratio as "high quality liquid assets".

Barclays expects securitization of small business loans, leases on telecommunication towers, shipping containers, and other kinds of esoteric assets to increase next year, helped by a gradual improvement in the economy and investors continued appetite for higher-yielding assets.

Moody’s Investors Service default rate index of non-federally guaranteed student loans dropped to 3.4% and will continue to fall year over year into 2014.

Canada’s structured finance and covered bonds markets are poised for additional growth in 2014, according to Fitch Ratings.

The firm said it has hired Juergen Haferkorn as a managing director in London. He will focus on asset-backed securities and expanding Cantor's outreach to German-speaking countries.

The ratings agency said in a report today that based on 2012 mortgage lending figures, had the FHFA implemented then the roughly 4% cut its proposes today, it would have shifted just 1% of borrowers to the private jumbo market.

Although Ocwen Financial agreed to pay more than $2 billion to settle allegations it mishandled foreclosures and mortgages for thousands of borrowers, it could have been even worse for the country's largest nonbank servicer.

They would be funded separately from its current auto loan portfolio and would not be included in the company’s current public securitization program.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has proposed to relax securitization capital charges will lead to “meaningful reductions” in capital requirements.

Investors and Issuers continued to grow comfortable with non-traditional securitizations in 2013; volumes for the sector neared $30 billion, the most issuance seen since 2007.

JP Morgan and Barclays priced the final conduit of the year, JPMBB 2013-C17. The super senior, 10-year notes sold two basis points wide of recent pricing.