The CRE Finance Council and investment research firm Morningstar have teamed up to launch a data set covering all facets of commercial mortgage-backed securities

Alliance Data Systems Corporation and GE Capital are each in the market with credit card ABS securitization deals that total a combined $1.032 billion.

Sallie Mae will issue a $976 million securitization of private student loans.

Hyundai Motor Co. and American Honda Finance Corp. are marketing two auto securitization deals that will be sized at $1.5 billion and $1bln respectively.

Investment bank EA Markets is muscling up their structured finance team by bringing on three new hires: Neil Winward, Greg Raykher, and Gerry Kaufman.

The U.S. housing recovery will vary by price range, location and seasonal adjustments to distressed property sales. These same factors also define how MBS deals are impacted, according to an Oct.9, Amherst Securities report.

Standard & Poor’s has found fresh evidence supporting its view that originators of consumer asset-backed securities will sustain issuance into the fourth quarter.

The estimated price of whole loans securing commercial mortgage-backed securities was 88.7% in August, up from 88.1% in July, according to DebtX, Boston.

Federal regulators are targeting another financial firm in connection with its mortgage activities before the housing crisis.

Two Democratic senators are urging federal regulators to reconsider a proposal that would require certain MBS issuers to maintain a reserve account during the life of a private mortgage securitization.

Both upper and lower coupons had their days in the sun this week. Over Monday and Tuesday it was lower coupons that outperformed; over Wednesday and Thursday it was up in coupon that led, and on Friday into mid-day the entire stack was doing well.

Foreign covered bonds that target U.S. investors are increasingly coming to market. The latest deal from NordLB will access U.S. investors via the 144A market but issuers have recently explored other options.