The increase in house prices in April was so widespread that 97% of the nation’s 579 metropolitan statistical areas registered an uptick in values from the month prior, according to Lender Processing Services (LPS).

The transaction called Bealine PLC securitizing airport slots at Heathrow airport operated by British Airways (BA) relies heavily on BA's credit worthiness, Moody’s Investors Service analysts said in a conference call held yesterday.

A U.K. RMBS deal issued by Clydesdale Bank will offer investors three-year and five-year bonds.

Jobs are what will get our national economy out of the doldrums. Job growth nationally has flattened out, and at a very low rate, over the past three months. But perhaps even more importantly, mortgage job growth has been flat.

Congress did not intend to impose additional legal liability on lenders that originate properly underwritten loans, according to 106 members of the House of Representatives.

Traccr has enhanced its online negotiation and trading platform for structured products, which now incorporates instant messaging to improve the communication between participants.

The House Financial Services Committee has opened a bipartisan examination of allegations that the London interbank offered rate was manipulated.

A regulator will allow bond insurer MBIA to make a payment on surplus notes issued in 2008, the company said.

In their Securitization Weekly Overview, Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts highlighted the “unusual” co-existence of the risk-on and risk-off trades that has emerged this year.

After the Federal Reserve Bank of New York made its initial offering in late April of its Maiden Lane III (ML III) holdings, it sold about 58% ($28 billion) of the portfolio, Barclays Capital analysts said in their most recent Securitized Products Weekly.

The Bank of England (BofE) on Friday launched its Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS) that will allow U.K. banks and building societies to borrow up to 5% of their stock of existing lending to the real economy, which is equal to roughly £80 billion ($125 billion) across all potentially eligible banks and building societies.

The Prestwick Mortgage Group is offering, as exclusive broker, $58 million in private investor multifamily/commercial servicing from an undisclosed private mortgage company.