Institutional refinancing in the fourth quarter, and continued high investor demand, drove a 12% surge in year-over-year U.S. leveraged lending in 2016 to $875 billion.

The $43.1 million SCR Notes Series 2016-MDN2, Class B, are linked to the credit risk of 68 multifamily mortgage loans originated between 1999 and 2016 with an unpaid principal balance of $863 million

A larger-than-expected “bail-in” of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena has placed the focus on other major Italian banks that have similar plans to seek government guarantees on their non-performing loan securitizations.

PHH is selling its remaining residential mortgage servicing portfolio to the real estate investment trust New Residential.

Russia’s Vozrozhdenie Bank is coming to market with a RUB 7.4 billion securitization of residential mortgages, it’s fifth to date, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

A recent piece making light of GSE recapitalization is dangerously misleading, according to the Executive Directors of the Community Mortgage Lenders of America and Community Home Lenders Association.

Next year is shaping up to be a pivotal one for the future of the Common Securitization Platform and the issuance of the single security by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Commercial real estate markets should continue to improve in 2017, though it remains to be seen how big of a role mortgage bonds will play in financing going forward.

Merchant banking firm Opus Bank completed a $509 million securitization of its multifamily loans through a Freddie Mac-sponsored “Q-deal” risk-transfer securitization, the company announced Tuesday.

A decade ago, regulators were warning that CRE exposure could lead to earnings and capital volatility. Fast forward to today and regulators are expressing similar reservations, warning that areas such as multifamily could become problematic. Bankers, however, say they believe the industry is better equipped to handle an economic shock.

Although subprime auto lending and securitization bear similarly troubling signs to the pre-crisis housing market, they clearly do not contain the macroeconomic risks posed by the mortgage industry nearly a decade ago. But investors may still not be in the clear.

In case you haven’t been keeping track, Moody’s Investors Service downgraded about half of the guaranteed student loan bonds that it had put under review this year.