The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago is making it easier for members to participate in its Mortgage Partnership Finance program for government-backed loans.

Citigroup plans to issue another $421 million of re-performing, residential mortgage bonds from its Citigroup Mortgage Loan trust, according to DBRS.

New Residential will begin marketing a $500 million securitization of performing mortgage loans next week and will issuer another RMBS in December.

CIT Group is weighing spinning off its aircraft-leasing business as the commercial lender seeks to simplify operations and focus more on the U.S., Chief Executive Officer John Thain said.

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.