Egan-Jones Ratings Company and its president Sean Egan will be barred for at least 18 months from rating asset-backed and government securities issuers as a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization.

Kroll Bonds Rating and Fitch Ratings assigned preliminary ratings to Redwood’s second residential mortgage-backed securitization in 2013 called Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-2.

Hyundai plans to issue a $1.31 billion auto ABS deal called Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2013-A (HART 2013-A).

Ford Motor Credit’s Canadian subsidiary is shopping $538 million of notes backed by auto loans, its first retail deal of the year.

Marine container securitizations set an all-time record in 2012 with issuance totaling $3.6billion in volume.

Sallie Mae said that it will continue to issue FFELP ABS to finance the redemption of all legacy FFELP loans previously sold into the U.S. Department of Education’s Straight –A conduit program.

Hertz priced an upsized, $950 million offering of three-year and five-year notes backed by its fleet of rental cars.

Morgan Stanley is marketing a $519 million CLO for LCM Asset Management.

Macquarie Bank priced $500 million of Aussia auto lease-backed notes targeting U.S. investors; a floating-rate tranche maturing in May 2015 pays Libor plus 27 basis points.

Goldman Sachs and Citigroup are next in line with the second conduit CMBS deal of the week, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange prospectus filed today.

Deutsche Bank are marketing its $1.49 billion conduit CMBS deal, COMM 2013-LC6 Mortgage Trust’s, according to a Standard & Poor’s presale report published today.

Covered bond investors are taking a more flexible view of the ratings and other characteristics of these investments, according to a survey conducted last month by Fitch Ratings. Yet they are discriminating about which jurisdictions they want exposure to.