Finance

Much of the industry’s efforts in 2015 were focused on avoiding compliance with the regulation, which takes effect in December 2016.

Aviation Capital pulled its securitization of aircraft leases from the securitization pipeline citing volatility in the ABS market.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency predicts issuance in bonds backed by commercial mortgages could hit $125 billion next year, even with borrowing costs rising as interest rates go up.

Standard & Poor's revised its criteria over a year ago; yet the majority of the deals that came to market in 2015 refinanced portions of the often-unrated variable funding note commitments that were extended by bank lenders during the six-month rating moratorium.

After widening in November amid market volatility, spreads on commercial mortgage bonds have reversed course in the primary market, tightening against their benchmarks.

The outstanding volume of cat bonds and insurance linked securities has hit a record, according to website Artemis.bm.

Specialty lender Regional Finance Co. has obtained a $75 million amortizing loan from Wells Fargo Bank that will be secured by automobile receivables.

Most investors in a recent survey said they want to ditch the pricing benchmark now used for many kinds of securitization.

Asset management firm Ranieri Strategies has hired Eric Kaplan the former head of MBS Finance at Shellpoint Partners. Both are companies founded by Lewis S. Ranieri.

SolarCity is marketing what may be the first securitization of loans to finance the purchase and installation of solar panels by consumers.

California regulators on Monday identified 14 companies that the state is targeting as part of its recently announced inquiry into the marketplace lending industry.

After several years of ceding business to catastrophe bond investors, reinsurers are pushing back, offering premiums that are competitive to the yields a bond sponsor would pay.

California officials have opened a broad inquiry into the marketplace lending business, seeking data from industry participants that will be used to assess the effectiveness of the state's current regulatory regime.

RAIT Partnership is the latest sponsor to tap the securitization market with bonds backed by commercial real estate loans, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Santander is marketing €1.33 billion ($1.45 billion) of notes backed by a portfolio of Spanish residential mortgages.

Marketplace lenders started 2015 as darlings of the securitization market, but their white hot growth started to attract calls for more regulation as the year unfolded.

Ten U.S. collateralized loan obligations totaling $4.8 billion were issued in November, marking the lowest monthly level since January 2014, according to Thomson Reuters LPC.

Amherst Pierpont Securities, an independent fixed-income broker-dealer, announced several senior hires today as it seeks to deepen leadership expertise across the firm.

CarVal Investors, which made its debut in the securitization market just last month, is back with a second helping of bonds backed by re-performing mortgages.