National Mortgage Insurance Corp. will insure about $5 billion in residential mortgages in Fannie Mae’s first risk transfer transaction, contingent on regulatory approval.

Should the European Commission and European Investment Bank follow through on proposals to spur lending to small and medium companies.

These deals are seeing an increase because car sales are picking up, meaning that makers are loaning more to dealers.

Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. (NMAC) is motoring into the primary market with a $1 billion deal backed by prime auto loans, according to a presale report by Fitch Ratings.

Unicredit privately placed a €400 million ($530.8 million) of the €750 million senior tranche in its German SME CLO, Geldilux TS 2013.

The 2013-C15 transaction will offer investors 14 classes of notes. It's backed by 83 commercial mortgage loans secured by 136 properties.

The slower pace of new issuance in consumer ABS, especially from the historically largest ABS issuers, leaves the market without benchmarks to base pricing on, according to a report by Wells Fargo.

Wireless Capital Partners (WCP) plans to issue $150 million of notes backed by lease payments from wireless carriers.

A number of companies operated by AXIS Capital Holdings are seeking re-insurance through the catastrophe bond market.

Richard Hill will head CMBS and commercial real estate research at Morgan Stanley. The move follows his departure from the Royal Bank of Scotland in June.

The bonds are collateralized by first-lien tax liens imposed by the City of New York on real properties due to unpaid property taxes, sewer rents, sewer surcharges, and/or water rents.