USAA is marketing a $70 million catastrophe bond, according to a presale report from Standard & Poor’s.

PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust only sold $170 million out of $550.5 million of RMBS bonds structured under its private-label securitization that was completed in the third quarter.

Cory Wishengrad, Barclays former co-head of U.S. securitization, will make a move to Guggenheim Securities, where he joins as a senior managing director.

American Electric Power’s Appalachian Power priced its $380 million utility tariff rate relief bonds tight relative to priced guidance issued earlier this week.

Rialto Capital Management plans to securitize the recoveries from non-performing loans, performing loans and real-estate owned properties that have an aggregate unpaid principal balance of $319.2 million.

Two Harbors Investment Corp said during its 3Q 2013 financial results conference call on Wednesday that it has a good pipeline of originator partners to support its non-agency RMBS program.

Freddie Mac sold its second offering of notes transferring credit risk on the mortgages it insures at much lower cost than its initial offering in late June.

Santander Consumer USA is bringing its fifth subprime auto securitization of they year to the public market.

Redwood Trust is confident that its latest offering of RMBS, Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-12, will get priced despite the more challenging environment.

Volkswagen priced its upsized $1.5 billion retail auto loans dubbed VALET 2013-2 today.

Sallie Mae upsized its SLM Student Loan Trust 2013-6 to $995.6 million from $746.8 million; and priced the deal today.