It is not a clear-cut statement to say Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac need more capital, and it detracts from the real debate over long-term housing finance reform.

LCM is almost completely overhauling its $465.5 million LCM XIII portfolio in ways beyond just extending its reinvestment period so as to preserve an exemption from forthcoming U.S. risk-retention rules.

SoFi Lending Corp. is testing the market for private student loans to slightly riskier borrowers.

Issuance volume of asset-backed securities for the year through December 16, 2016.

Underwriting league tables for asset-backed securities for the year through December 16, 2016.

A regulatory 2017 scorecard for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac calls on the firms to transfer a significant portion of credit risk to third-party private investors on at least 90% of unpaid principal balance of newly acquired single-family mortgages.

Bayview Asset Management is prepping another securitization of mortgages it acquired from CitiFinancial that were once delinquent but are now making timely payments.

Renovate America has priced its fourth securitization this year of Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) bonds, in a $292 million deal that capped a near doubling of its investor base since the year began.

A legislative proposal would expand Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's use of specially-created debt securities to share their risk with private investors, but such risk transfer deals are not a replacement for core capital.

A Brexit-driven rise in the UK’s inflation rate through 2017 would bring a depreciation in the British sterling that could create negative connotations for mortgage, auto loan and other consumer debt securitizations, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

JPMorgan is returning to a familiar structure as it again pools large-market prime jumbo mortgages for investors in collateralized residential mortgage loans.