Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac want to make it easier for owners of older apartment buildings to make energy efficient upgrades.

J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust (JPMMT) 2016-3 is a $395.4 million notes structure consisting of 553 loans for homes primarily in California and major cities like New York, Boston and Washington, D.C. Fitch has issued preliminary 'AAA' ratings to the senior notes.

Freddie Mac is taking advantage of favorable market conditions to tee up another offering of securities transferring the credit risk of residential mortgages that it insures.

It's shaping up to be a solid year in the U.S. housing sector. But beneath this calm surface, the U.S. mortgage industry is facing a crisis.

Wells Fargo’s new commercial mortgage securitization of $757.1 million in notes includes backing from a key property centered on gentrification efforts in Queens.

Fannie Mae obtained reinsurance on $14.4 billion of residential mortgage through its Credit insurance Risk Transfer program.

A pool of credit card receives issued by Group BPCE’s Natixis Financement unit are being securitized in the second-ever issuance through the Purple Master Credit Cards, FCT in France. The €651 million transaction mostly consists of €550 million in a Class A2016-1 series of notes.

Citigroup is shopping $540 million of bonds backed by a portfolio of 102 self-storage facilities.

Zopa, an online lender based in the U.K., is marketing £138 million of bonds backed by unsecured consumer loans, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

Some big investors are keeping their powder dry in the event that an exogenous event roils the financial markets; in the meantime, it’s a challenge to put money to work in assets that produce decent returns without taking on excessive risk.

While the U.S. CLO market sputters behind its 2015 pace, European collateralized loan obligation deals this year are leading the 2015 clip by a nose. But don’t expect that comparably healthy advantage to translate into a rush of Euro-denominated deals by year’s end.

Two recent court decisions that curtailed controversial debt collection and payday lending policies could wind up impacting leading marketplace lenders, no matter their distance from such abusive and predatory practices.