The U.S. hurricane season is only just getting underway, but so far this year, insured damage from tornado activity and other global catastrophes is running well below the same time last year, according to Guy Carpenter.

The commercial real estate finance company hired James Cope and Patrick Dempsey as senior vice presidents with plans to open a new office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Freddie Mac's new offering of Structured Pass-Through Certificates backed exclusively by multifamily mortgages with a 7-year term will be sized at $1.0 billion.

New record lows in mortgage rates provided a modest 1.3% stimulus in mortgage application activity for the holiday-shortened week ending June 1.

Former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chair Sheila Bair is at helm of a new private sector, volunteer group, The Systemic Risk Council.

Fitch Ratings said in a press release Tuesday that the California Proposition 29, the Tobacco Tax for Cancer Research Act, could reduce payments that all states receive from the Tobacco companies under the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA).

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York plans to sell $7 billion from its Maiden Lane III portfolio which will include assets from seven CDOs .

JP Morgan said this week that its buyside survey shows that U.S. investor participation in U.K. RMBS has increased since September 2011.

Ocwen Financial Corp., a provider of residential and commercial loans based in Atlanta, Georgia, bought Aurora Bank’s commercial servicing portfolio.

As head of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), David H. Stevens spent the last year warning that excessive and ill-considered regulation could drag down the mortgage market.

In a short note released this morning, Standard & Poor's analysts said that benchmark European covered bond issuance was €12.5 billion in May, up from €6.6 billion in April.