Commercial mortgage loan originations in 2017 are expected to increase 3% over last year to a record high, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The industry’s reliance on these yardsticks to estimate the riskiness of a pool of borrowers is mathematically flawed.

In it’s continuing effort to shield taxpayers from potential defaults, Freddie Mac is now offering investors exposure to the credit risk of multifamily mortgages that are awaiting securitization.

Kensington Mortgage Co. (KMC) is pooling approximately £343.7 million (US$428.7) in prime-borrower first-lien and “buy-to-let” investor mortgages in the second UK mortgage-backed securitization being marketed this month.

GSO/Blackstone Debt Funds Management earned the top spot in deal-count of U.S. CLO transactions by registering 28 deals totaling $13.3 billion in 2016, according to a tally of manager activity in the collateralized loan obligation market by Moody’s Investors Service.

Increasingly, these transactions are being structured to give lessors more flexibility in terms of both the types of collateral and the ability to actively trade aircraft. As a result, transactions more accurately reflect lesssors’ fleets

Marketplace lender Kabbage is marketing $500 million of bonds backed by small business loans and lines of credit. The transaction, dubbed Kabbage Asset Securitization 2017-1, refinances a $270 million facility it obtained in 2014 that is set to expire.

Ocwen Financial has reached a deal with California authorities to resolve allegations that the mortgage servicing firm -- a frequent target of regulators in recent years -- again violated a range of state and federal laws.

Issuance volume of asset-backed securities for the year through February 17, 2017.

Asset-backed securities that priced in the two weeks ended February 17, 2017.

Canadian banks are increasingly crossing the border to fund their credit card programs, taking advantage of lower borrowing costs available in the much larger U.S. market.