Spreads widened on all but the riskiest tranche for Freddie Mac’s latest offering of Structured Agency Credit Risk securities as investors demanded additional compensation for taking on the credit risk of mortgages insured by the company.

Babson Capital is the first CLO manager to brave market volatility at the start of the year with a new deal.

Volvo is coming out with a deal backed by loans on trucking and construction equipment.

Home Partners of America is securitizing a portfolio of single family rental homes with a unique feature: the tenants lease-to-own.

Annaly Capital Management announced Friday that it promoted David Finkelstein to the position of Chief Investment Officer if Agency and RMBS.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency issued a long-awaited final rule governing Federal Home Loan Bank membership requirements on Tuesday.

Westlake Services is pooling a larger percentage of its lower credit borrowers in the sponsor's first bond offering of the year.

Walker & Dunlop has agreed to acquire the other half of a commercial mortgage-backed securities joint venture it has with Fortress Investment Group.

CLO managers are increasingly looking to non-traditional loan facilities to finance the economic interest in the credit risk that they must hold in their deals under the impending U.S. risk retention rules.

Amherst Holdings plans to market $400 million worth of bonds backed by single family rental homes.

Live Oak Bancshares in Wilmington, N.C., one of the largest 7(a) program lenders in the U.S. last year, has promoted Greg Thompson to chief operating officer.