Student loans are showing signs of growing too fast, perhaps the only market flashing a warning even as the economic recovery grows older, Citigroup Chief Financial Officer John Gerspach said

Dell and Ascentium launched a pair of equipment lease securitizations; NextGear readies notes backed by auto dealer inventory financing; Consumer Portfolio Services closes on auto ABS.

Ocwen Financial and its subsidiaries faced a slew of accusations from federal and state regulators on Thursday, which raised questions about whether the firm could survive.

Managers of European collateralized loan obligations are under-reporting their exposure to loans that lack certain investor protections, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

The House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing on a GOP Dodd-Frank overhaul plan next Wednesday as Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, hopes to have a panel vote on the bill by the end of the month.

Bayview Asset Management is bundling bonds that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac use to transfer the credit risk of mortgages into collateral for new bonds.

Two PACE program administrators, Ygrene Energy and Renew Financial, picked the same day to launch their first securitizations of the year.

Navient is hopeful that its purchase of $6.9 billion of student loans from JPMorgan Chase could encourage other banks to consider selling their portfolios.

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance is marketing an unusually large offering of bonds backed by equipment loans and leases.

Supreme Court Justices appeared exasperated with both sides in a case that would define whether companies that buy distressed debt are covered under a federal statute setting limits on their activities.

The Toronto-based lender is planning to sell debt backed by nearly C$2 billion ($1.5 billion) of prime uninsured mortgages. That's a new development in a country where big banks have historically packaged government-insured mortgages into bonds.

The first new commercial mortgage securitization to hit the market in two weeks is backed by a portfolio of cold storage facilities.