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.

Wells Fargo is marketing what may be the first offering of commercial mortgage bonds to comply with Regulation AB II.

J.G Wentworth priced its third securitization of 2015 and said it plans to increase its issuance program to four deals per year from the usual three starting in 2016.

When news broke in October that New York’s Stuy Town was being sold, observers expected the $3 billion loan on the property to be paid off without a glitch. Recent litigation might change that.

A jump in lending in many parts of Europe, coupled with rising economic growth and higher employment, should help bolster the performance of securitizations in Europe, according to Fitch Ratings.

LoanDepot closed its first securitization of personal loans today, the company announced in a press release.