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Ocwen Financial has tentatively agreed to sell a mortgage-servicing portfolio on $9.8 billion of loans to Nationstar Mortgage Holdings, and Ocwen hinted that more deals may be in the offing

As part of its asset backed securities purchasing program (ABSPP) launched in November, the ECB is buying portions of senior tranches and encouraging market investors to join in.

The deal called Consumer Credit Origination Loan Trust 2015-1 will offer a total of $377.85 million of securities backed by unsecured consumer loans originated and serviced through the online platform operated by Prosper Funding, the world’s second largest P2P lender.

Structured finance professionals aren’t losing much sleep over a new regulation barring federally-insured banks from engaging in certain kinds of swaps with vehicles that issue asset-backed securities

Avis Budget Car Rental and American Honda Finance Corp. added $1.6 billion to the pipeline of auto-related asset backed securities Tuesday.

The Chicago Board Options Exchange has launched a product designed to allow fixed-income investors to hedge against interest-rate volatility.

Barclays analysts downsized their forecast for issuance of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) by U.K. banks for 2015.

Regulatory clarity is an integral factor in Fitch Ratings stable outlook for the securitization market in 2015.

If the European Central Bank wants to provide more capital relief to Eurozone banks through its securitization-buying scheme than banks would get by holding on to their assets, it will have to snap up mezzanine tranches as well.

Freddie Mac Brings 2 More deals to market sharing the credit risk in residential mortgages that it guarantees.

Regulators will unveil a long-awaited final rule next week that requires lenders to retain some of the risk for loans they securitize, a critical part of the Dodd-Frank Act that the agencies have struggled to implement.

Dignity, the U.K.'s second-largest funeral services provider and the biggest private cremation provider, plans to refinance its securitized debt obligations, via a new transaction.

Which opinion is more reliable: A well-informed one tainted by financial arrangements or one free of such conflicts but based on limited data — and possibly colored by spite?