Private mortgage insurance companies and mortgage REITs are willing to take first-loss positions on government-backed MBS, according to Mortgage Bankers Association chief executive David Stevens.

JP Morgan plans to issue a $510 million, commercial mortgage-backed securitization deal backed by Marriott hotel properties called JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust 2013-JWRZ.

Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation priced its upsized $1.25 billion auto lease backed securitization deal called Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2013-A. The deal was originally sized at $800 million.

JP Morgan Chase plans to launch two credit card ABS transactions for a total of $1 billion.

Comenity Bank, formerly World Financial Network Bank priced its triple-A notes from private label credit card ABS Series 2013-B on Tuesday.

“Persistent economic concerns” may slow the pace but won't stop improvements in commercial real estate performance throughout 2013, according to Moody's Investors Service.

CarFinance Capital, the subprime auto lender owned by private equity firm Perella Weinberg Partners, is planning a $253 million securitization, according Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Macquarie Bank upsized its senior note offering from its auto lease-backed ABS targeting U.S. investors to $750 million from $500 million.

Annual payments into the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement for 2003-2012 increased this year to $7.5 billion from last year's $6.15 billion, according to Standard & Poor’s.

Cantor Fitzgerald said today it has added four structured credit professionals and is planning expand the business to underwrite new collateralized loan obligations in the U.S. and Europe.

Ratings rotation was advocated by some panelists at a talk a convened by the Securities and Exchange Commission on a credit rating assignment system as envisaged by Section 939F of the Dodd-Frank Act, also known as the Franken Amendment.