The protection commercial mortgage-backed securities sellers must provide in order to obtain higher ratings for their bonds is likely to cost them even more going forward, said Fitch Ratings.

Michael Stegman, a counselor to the Treasury Secretary on housing finance, said the GSEs' recent profitability was misleading and does not lessen the need for housing finance reform.

Alexandra Margolis joins Nixon Peabody as partner in the firm’s Commercial & Structured Finance practice.

Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), part of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, made three appointments to its structured products team in New York.

The class 2014-A1 notes are structured with a longer tenor than the last two credit card deals to price this month.

Price guidance throughout the whole capital structure holds steady for the Goldman Sachs and Citigroup conduit.

More community banks are coming forward to say the recent change to the Volcker Rule failed to shield them from financial hits.

View year-to-date issuance through Jan. 24 for ABS, MBS and CMBS.

View the year-to-date manager rankings through Jan. 24 for the different ABS sectors, including real estate, credit cards and autos.

Standard & Poor’s said in a report that covered bonds ratings remain vulnerable to country risk despite the more stable economic conditions in Europe.

Citibank is marketing a credit card securitization sized at $850 million credit card ABS that will bring year to date issuance for the asset class to $3.4 billion.

Nationstar Mortgage is further along in developing its origination capacity than Ocwen Financial and Walter Investment Management, according to a new report by Moody's Investors Service.