Two of the largest single-family landlords, Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust and Colony American Homes, are merging into company with over 30,000 homes and an aggregate value of $7.7 billion.

The Structured Finance Industry Group (SFIG) has hired Dan Goodwin as director of mortgage policy who will focus on mortgage backed securities policy issues.

What traders at ABS East think is cheap (FFELP), hot (private SLABS), and not-so-hot (subprime autos).

BOC Aviation, a leading Asia-based global aircraft leasing company, plans to issue $807.9 million of bonds backed by aircraft leases.

With solar securitization a new growth sector in asset-backed, it’s only natural that the securitization-minded might start looking into electricity storage, which is expected to feed off the rise of renewable energy.

The CLO industry would love to have more explicit guidance from regulators on rules requiring managers to keep ‘skin in the game’ of these deals; unfortunately, that guidance is not likely to come any time soon.

The Federal Housing Administration’s recent determination that loans used to finance energy efficient home improvements rank second in payment priority, behind mortgages, isn’t the setback that it might seem to be.

What’s it going to take to boost annual issuance of private label RMBS roughly ten-fold to $100 billion-$150 billion? A reduced footprint for the GSEs, for starters.

Some of the smaller landlords that Colony American Finance lends to have pretty sophisticated – and innovative – ways to manage credit

Add this to the list of concerns for investors in bonds backed by federally guaranteed student loans: marketplace lenders are stealing their best collateral.

Policies that seek to increase home ownership by extending more credit to homeowners are misguided, according to former Federal Housing Finance Agency chief Edward J. DeMarco.