General Electric Capital Corp. (GE) is going to issue under its GE Equipment Transportation LLC, Series 2012-1. The deal will be sized at $716.5 million, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing on the offering.

Walter Investment Management Corp. (WIM) lost $4 million in the fourth quarter and $69 million for the year because of costs tied to its purchase of Green Tree Servicing, St. Paul, Minn.

The 9.37% CMBS delinquency rate in February was lower both sequentially and compared to year-ago monthly figures by Trepp's measure.

Investment bank North Sea Partners has hired Steve Paras as managing director and head of European capital markets.

Standard & Poor's has appointed Michelle Weston as regional practice leader for structured finance ratings in EMEA.

In a regulatory filing today, Ally Bank has upsized its previously $1 billion auto ABS to $1.7 billion. The deal is rated by Fitch Ratings and Moody's Investors Service.

Proposed changes to the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD IV) – which is the European Union's mechanism for implementing Basel III into law – could cause banks' capital requirements to be diluted.

Judicial Watch has sued the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), claiming that the agency wrongfully denied a request for documents related to a lawsuit over alleged misrepresentations of MBS.

Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen, P.C. has hired Howard Mulligan as of counsel in the corporate department.

After peaking at 4538 for 2012, refinancing activity has declined for three straight weeks as mortgage rates remained above record lows.

Conventional 30-year prepayments increased around 12% versus an expected 6%-7%.

Nationstar Mortgage and an affiliate company Newcastle Investment Corp. have agreed to acquire roughly $63 billion in mortgage servicing rights from Aurora Bank, a subsidiary of the bankrupt Lehman Brothers.