Finance

Ford Motor is prepping its second auto securitization of the year, a $1.342 billion deal backed by prime loans.

Brent Lewis has joined Hunton & Williams' structured finance and securitization practice as counsel in New York.

Freddie Mac put out the bid list for its $1 billion RMBS sale today. The GSE confirmed that sale is part of a $5 billon program it will execute in 2013.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch priced its German multifamily CMBS Taurus 2013 (GMF 1) plc on Thursday, showing some green shoots of recovery for that market.

Oaktree Capital Group reported its first quarter financial results on Tuesday and said that it has launched a commercial mortgage-backed securities investment fund.

Major League Baseball is planning to issue $134 million of notes from its MLB Club Trust, according to a presale published today by Fitch Ratings.

A real estate arm of KeyCorp has agreed to purchase more than $100 billion of servicing rights on commercial and multifamily loans from Bank of America.

More CMBS paper is on the way with the latest issue coming from the Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Jefferies as joint lead managers on the $1.1 billion CMBS deal called GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2013-GCJ12.

Citigroup plans to issue a $439.8 million single borrower CMBS transaction called CGCMT-375P.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is pushing for private student lenders and the government to help lower payments for borrowers after receiving thousands of complaints from consumers.

EverBank, which recently issued its first jumbo mortgage-backed security, plans to become a regular issuer and is close to another deal.

Mexican President Pena Nieto's affordable housing policies may have negative consequences for existing private-sector RMBS, according to Fitch Ratings.

Pacifica Companies said it has selected BSI Financial two service two of its securitizations, real estate asset trust 2013-1 and asset-backed notes series 2013-1.

There are a number of possible ways for the Federal Reserve to unwind its mortgage-backed securities purchases, but reverse repurchase sales would be outcome, according to a panelits at the Mortgage Bankers Association's National Secondary Market Conference Wednesday.

Capital One priced its $700 million Capital One Multi-Asset Execution Trust (COMET) 2013-2 credit card ABS deal to strong investor demand.

GC Securities expects catastrophe (cat) bond issuance to come within reach if not exceed the $7 billion record hit in 2007, according to a release from the boutique investment bank.

Issuance of prime auto ABS is falling short of the pace set in 2012, and Wells Fargo says this may be partly explained by the fact that more consumers are opting to lease, rather than buy, new vehicles.

Hyundai Capital America plans to issue $512 million of asset backed securities from its floorplan master trust structure, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

Shellpoint Partners said its shelf registration initially filed with Securities and Exchange Commission last October, was declared effective today.