The RE.bound initiative is looking into a novel use for cat bonds: financing resiliency infrastructure. A related study by re:focus partners has put out proposals for certain cities to deal more effectively with climate-related challenges. Here's a few ideas.

One of the biggest U.S. mortgage lenders is looking to disrupt the disruptors in the market for peer-to-peer loans.

Deutsche Bank and Cantor priced a CMBS conduit at better levels than more leveraged Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Merrill Lynch transaction.

Asset-backed securities that priced in the two weeks ended July 24, 2015.

Issuance totals for ABS, MBS and CMBS for the year through July 24, 2015.

The City of New York is prepping $90.9 million of bonds backed by first priority tax lien certificates on residential and commercial properties.

Deutsche Bank plans to issue €316 million ($346 million) securities backed by three commercial mortgage loans that are secured by 37 office, retail and hotel properties located in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.

Goldman Sachs is marketing commercial U.K. mortgage bonds backed by a portfolio of distribution warehouses owned by Logicor.

Flagship Credit Acceptance and CarFinance subprime auto loans are to be pooled together for the first time under a single securitization platform, since the two lending platforms were merged on January 1, 2015.

Freddie Mac latest risk-sharing transaction is looks a lot like a private label mortgage backed security.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Barclays plan to securitize a $273 million commercial mortgage loan that is secured on the newly constructed 51 Astor Place, a class-A office tower located in New York, NY..

Standard & Poor's put $330 million of tobacco bonds under review for a possible downgrade Wednesday, saying its ratings failed to account for a key risk.