Allison Bisbey

Towd Point Mortgage Trust 2017-3 is smaller the the sponsor's two previous deals of the year, but the credit quality of the collateral is remarkably similar.

It's the largest increase in five years; the percentage of securitized commercial mortgages behind on payments is now 5.75%, according to Trepp.

Angel Oak was able to secure triple-A credit ratings for its next offering of nonprime residential mortgage bonds, despite offering considerably less credit enhancement.

The Blackstone Group is tapping the commercial mortgage bond market to help finance the purchase of 11 multifamily properties from IMT Capital, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Lea Overby was formerly managing director, research; she replaces Charles Citro, who left the credit rating agency to pursue other opportunities.

Sponsoring securitizations of the loans funded on its platform will give LendingClub more control over its reputation in the market and make it less beholden to direct loan buyers.

The transaction is backed by apartment properties, hotels and office buildings in a state of transition.

Investors had better hope it does; the spectrum rights backing the notes would be less valuable to a combined Sprint and T-Mobile, decreasing recovery in the event of default.

The marketplace lender had to offer higher investor protections on a consumer loan securitization than rival Upstart, but it also achieved a lower funding cost

The office market in Arlington, Virginia has taken a big hit from cutbacks at the Department of Defense, but Goldman Sachs is making a sizable bet on a comeback.

As of late Thursday, there were two bond offerings backed by prime auto loans (Ford, Honda), three backed by subprime auto loans (Santander, GLS, UACC) and two backed by dealer inventory financing (Ally, Navistar).

The REIT obtained a $2.3 billion loan on the 50-story office and retail property from four banks; a $1.3 billion portion serves as collateral for BXP Trust 2017-GM.

Welk Resort Group is coming to market after a two-year hiatus; its previous securitization has yet to experience losses, but only because the sponsor is repurchasing defaulted loans from the trust.

The notes are backed by a revolving pool of short-term receivables generated from the sale of crude oil, oil products, non-ferrous metals, non-ferrous metal concentrates, iron ore, coal and refined metals.

KKR is undertaking a rare refinancing of a 2014-vintage collateralized loan obligation that does take advantage of a one-time exemption from risk retention requirements.

This type of lending is in high demand, but most of it is being done on balance sheets by banks and insurers; transactions like this are still relatively rare.

The bonds are backed by contract payments on customer cellphones, a new asset class that has proven popular because of its high payment priority and potential for sizable issuance.

Upstart (that's it's name), which was founded by several former Google employees, makes unsecured installment loans to prime and near-prime borrowers.

Insurance companies surveyed by CREFC and Trepp continued to boost their allocations to commercial real estate in 2016, albeit at a slower rate than in 201.

MFA Financial launched a debut offering of bonds backed by rehabbed loans Monday; several other firms have begun aggregating residential mortgages in preparation for possible securitization.