Freddie Mac will begin issuing single-family mortgage-backed securities sometime next year via the new common securitization platform, the Federal Housing Finance Agency said Thursday.

Ally Financial, seeking new sources of customers, will finance used cars sold through Beepi, an 18- month-old website that lets people buy vehicles with a few clicks and no test drive.

Sen. Bob Corker championed a provision he added to the budget bill that would temporarily prevent the Treasury Department from recapitalizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and discussed other banking priorities in a sitdown interview with American Banker.

With regulators nipping at their heels, auto lenders had good reason this year to retrench. But that’s not what they did.

Fannie Mae’s final risk sharing transaction of the year was with reinsurers.

Don’t expect much of an impact on structured finance next year from the Fed rate hike and its decision to raise rates gradually.

Much of the industry’s efforts in 2015 were focused on avoiding compliance with the regulation, which takes effect in December 2016.

Aviation Capital pulled its securitization of aircraft leases from the securitization pipeline citing volatility in the ABS market.

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.