Morgan Stanley is securitizing two floating-rate loans totaling $305 million that are in turn backed by hotel and mall properties.

B2R Finance is marketing a second pool of loans secured by rental properties that is both larger and better supported than the issuer's inaugural deal.

Bank of America has agreed to pay $335 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it misled shareholders about risky mortgages and its dependence on the electronic mortgage registry known as MERS.

BlueVirgo Capital Management is marketing $106.1 million of bonds backed by tax lien certificates on New Jersey and Florida based properties, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Five Oak Investment Corp, a real estate investment trust that manages a portfolio of agency and non-agency RMBS, is back with a second securitization this year, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Hotels feature heavily in the collateral pool that backs the latest Deutsche Bank and Cantor Fitzgerald-led conduit CMBS.

A slowdown in cigarette consumption declines, a settlement in New York with the big tobacco companies, and strong demand for risk assets is supporting a rally in the high-yield tobacco bond sector

Issuance totals for ABS, MBS and CMBS for the year through Oct. 29, 2015.

Deutsche Bank is exiting agency residential mortgage-backed securities trading as part of a larger strategic plan announced Thursday that cuts thousands of positions in numerous business lines worldwide.

Paragon mortgage plans to issue £100 million worth of bonds backed by U.K. buy-to-let mortgages, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. is marketing its second auto lease securitization of the year.

Commercial real estate lender Hunt Mortgage Group has hired Amy Shah to build and launch a collateralized loan obligations platform.