Prestige Financial Services is in the market with a $350 million securitization of subprime auto loans, its 14th since 1996, according to a pre-sale from Dominion Bond Rating Service (DBRS).

Valuations of performing commercial real estate (CRE) whole loans in legacy CMBS trusts improved over the month of February, according to data from DebtX.

AmeriCredit is planning a $1.1 billion securitization of subprime auto loans, according to ratings ageccy presale reports.

DBRS said it plans to rate the $103 million conduit CMBS issued by A10 Capital, a commercial real estate lender that specializes in small to middle market commercial mortgage loans.

View year-to-date issuance through March 22 for ABS, MBS and CMBS.

View the year-to-date manager rankings through March 22 for the different ABS sectors, including real estate, credit cards and autos.

See results from the Mortgage Bankers Association's Refinance and Purchase Indexes for the week ended March 20 as well as the weekly mortgage rates surveyed by Freddie Mac for the week ended March 21.

Longstanding tensions within the American Securitization Forum (ASF) boiled over in March, when most of its board of directors resigned and formed a new trade group.

A relatively weak framework of representations and warranties in a $616-million residential mortgage-backed security from JP Morgan injected fresh fuel into a discussion that’s been running for several weeks

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By tweaking one aspect of its methodology for rating securitizations, Moody’s Investors Service has set the stage for more downgrades of deals issued out of peripheral Eurozone countries.

Federal Housing Finance Agency Acting Director Edward DeMarco said a single mbs platform could be a building block for a new mortgage market