Social Finance has big ambitions to provide all kinds of financial products to successful young professionals, and securitization plays a key role.

New regulations for credit rating agencies that took effect this week are expected to make mortgage and other asset-backed securities more transparent by requiring broader disclosure of certain due diligence reports.

The European Covered Bond Council plans to harmonize the now fragmented way European covered bond issuers report data under a new transparency template.

Deutsche Bank priced most tranches issued from its $1 billion commercial mortgage securitization wider than the last conduit issued, according to a regulatory filing.

A lack of liquidity and punitive regulatory costs continue to make securitization an expensive investment alternative in Europe, according to Moody's Investors Service.

It's been seven months since the ECB launched its program for buying asset-backed securities so it seems fair to ask whether it has stimulated issuance.

Great Wolf Resorts 2015-WOLF pays only interest for its entire term and has a "relatively high" in-trust LTV of 87%, according to Kroll. Oh, and there's $360 million of mezzanine debt securitized in a separate deal.

The Wall Street giant is building out a staff that could have as many as 100 people by the end of 2015, theTimes reported. The company hopes to make its first consumer loans in 2016, according to the Times.

Zions Bancorporation said Tuesday it sold the remainder of its holdings of collateralized debt obligations.

California Gov. Jerry Brown violated state law by diverting more than $331 million in mortgage settlement funds for uses unrelated to housing, a Superior Court judge ruled.

Citi and Renew Financial recently closed the first ever securitization under the Warehouse for Energy Efficiency Loans.

Freddie Mac is preparing its fifth offering of risk-sharing notes of the year and the second with exposure to actual mortgage losses.