Thanks to persistently low interest rates and rising property values, sponsors had little trouble refinancing the wall of commercial mortgage debt maturing this year.

Jefferies is Floating Plans to Finance the 5% stakes that CLO managers will need to retain in their own deals.

Citigroup Latest Securitization of Prosper Loans Rated by both Moody's Invetors Service and Fitch Ratings.

California Republic Bank is marketing its fourth auto loan securitization this year.

HomeUnion in Irvine, Calif., has formed a mortgage-brokerage division that will focus on investors in single-family rental homes.

American Homes 4 Rent, the largest publicly traded U.S. single-family home landlord, agreed to acquire a smaller competitor, American Residential Properties Inc., in a deal valued at $1.5 billion, including debt.

Select Portfolio Servicing plans to issue $1 billion in term notes backed by interest and principal payments advanced to mortgages SPS services.

Kensington Mortgage Co. plans to issue a bonds backed by a portfolio of recently acquired GE Money originated U.K. mortgages.

Banks are losing auto finance market share to captive lenders and finance companies, according to a new report from the credit bureau Experian.

New bank capital rules on the horizon could nearly wipe out secondary trading in most kinds of asset-backeds, said JPMorgan analysts in a report.

Is Fitch Ratings going easier on bonds backed by federally guaranteed student loans than Moody’s Investors Service? That’s the conclusion of analysts at Barclays.