Kroll Bond Rating Agency predicts issuance in bonds backed by commercial mortgages could hit $125 billion next year, even with borrowing costs rising as interest rates go up.

Standard & Poor's revised its criteria over a year ago; yet the majority of the deals that came to market in 2015 refinanced portions of the often-unrated variable funding note commitments that were extended by bank lenders during the six-month rating moratorium.

Increased leverage in the nonfinancial sector, banks reaching for yield in a persistently low-interest rate environment and emerging markets pose a growing threat to the system, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Office of Financial Research.

After widening in November amid market volatility, spreads on commercial mortgage bonds have reversed course in the primary market, tightening against their benchmarks.

The outstanding volume of cat bonds and insurance linked securities has hit a record, according to website Artemis.bm.

Specialty lender Regional Finance Co. has obtained a $75 million amortizing loan from Wells Fargo Bank that will be secured by automobile receivables.

Most investors in a recent survey said they want to ditch the pricing benchmark now used for many kinds of securitization.

As key interest rates turned negative this year in Europe, everyday financial transactions entered the realm of fun-house mirrors.

Asset management firm Ranieri Strategies has hired Eric Kaplan the former head of MBS Finance at Shellpoint Partners. Both are companies founded by Lewis S. Ranieri.

SolarCity is marketing what may be the first securitization of loans to finance the purchase and installation of solar panels by consumers.

California regulators on Monday identified 14 companies that the state is targeting as part of its recently announced inquiry into the marketplace lending industry.

Issuance volume of ABS, MBS and CMBS for the year through December 11, 2016.