Bear Stearns abandoned its credit guidelines for reviewing borrowers whose MBS it sold to investors over a roughly five-year period beginning in 2003, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman charged in a civil lawsuit filed in Manhattan.

Mike Perry, the chief executive at IndyMac before it was seized by the FDIC in 2008, has agreed to settle the last remaining negligence claim against him by the SEC by paying an $80,000 fine.

To add to the growing number of credit card ABS transactions, GE Capital today filed with the SEC to issue under its GE Capital Credit Card Master Note Trust.

Wells Fargo analysts said this afternoon that student loans seem to be "crowding out" other types of consumer borrowing.

Home-equity loan installment balances rose 0.3% in August, representing the first increase since November 2007,

Wells Fargo reviewed three different time segments of gross purchase activity by the Fed, the first two weeks of QE3, the two weeks leading up to QE3 and the time since inception.

Morgan Stanley Mortgage Capital Holdings was sued for at least $110.8 million by a trustee for investors in MBS.

HLSS Holdings has paid $238 million for the right to “receive servicing fees” on $6.7 billion of subprime and Alt-A mortgages from Ocwen Financial Corp.

JPMorgan Securities will be issuing under a its Chase Issuance Trust worth $600 million.

Credit card holders are keeping a lid on spending, and banks are flush with cheap deposits to fund new accounts. These might not seem like the ideal conditions for credit card securitization to take off, but that's just what is happening.

The mortgage and MBS market landscapes have profoundly changed over the last month as a result of actions by both regulators and monetary authorities.

Florida Citizens' Sharon Binnun brings to fruition largest cat bond by a state entity to date.