Zurich Insurance Group said today that it issued a 3-year, $270 million catastrophe bond called Lakeside Re III.

Flagstar Bancorp Inc. is selling a portfolio of commercial loans, including commercial real estate loans, to CIT Bank for $779 million that will expand CIT's middle market customer base.

Policymakers appear unwilling to take on the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as they face other issues and the housing market begins to recover.

Experience isn the only thing that sets managers of collateralized loan obligations apart, according to Scott D’Orsi, a partner with Feingold O’Keeffe Capital; it's also a matter of investment style.

Securitization of very large commercial loans, a hallmark of the CMBS market before the financial crisis, is making a comeback -- but with a twist.

Freddie Mac’s is marketing its $1.2 billion multifamily offering expected to price during the week of January 7, according to a press release.

The Trepp CMBS delinquency rate held at 9.71% in December 2012, unchanged from the previous month.

JP Morgan Securities held on to the No. 1 spot in the ASR Scorecards Database's repliminary ranking of public managers for full-year 2012.

Upwards of $7 billion of collateralized loan obligations priced in December, bringing the total for the year to around $53 billion, and market participants say the 2012 pipeline is building.

The notion that higher g-fees will, on their own, lead to a revival of the private-label MBS market is a fantasy.

In the EMEA area (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) a slew of commercial mortgage backed securities are maturing this month.

The collateralized debt obligation (CDO) may not have a great reputation, but it has an important strength: versatility.