Securitization

Macquarie Bank upsized its senior note offering from its auto lease-backed ABS targeting U.S. investors to $750 million from $500 million.

Annual payments into the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement for 2003-2012 increased this year to $7.5 billion from last year's $6.15 billion, according to Standard & Poor’s.

Cantor Fitzgerald said today it has added four structured credit professionals and is planning expand the business to underwrite new collateralized loan obligations in the U.S. and Europe.

Ratings rotation was advocated by some panelists at a talk a convened by the Securities and Exchange Commission on a credit rating assignment system as envisaged by Section 939F of the Dodd-Frank Act, also known as the Franken Amendment.

A range of voices in the structured finance industry spoke against a credit rating assignment system as envisaged by Section 939F of the Dodd-Frank Act at a panel convened by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Ocwen’s Home Loan Servicing Solutions is marketing two servicer advance receivables-backed securitization deals, Series 2013-T2 and Series 2013-T3 that will issue a combined total of $850 million.

West Bromwich Building Society announced the first investor-placed prime U.K. RMBS of the year— a £380 million ($579 million) senior tranche from the deal Kenrick No. 2.

Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation plans to issue an $800 million auto lease backed securitization deal called Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2013-A.

The American Securitization Forum and the Structured Finance Industry Group will both speak against the Franken Amendment at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ratings agency roundtable event in Washington D.C.

Wells Fargo and RBS plan to issue a $1.4 billion conduit CMBS deal called WFRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2013-C14 that is backed by 73 fixed rate commercial mortgage loans that are secured by 99 properties.

Comenity Bank, formerly World Financial Network Bank, plans to issue a $526.3 million securitization from its credit card master note trust.

Fitch Ratings said bonds backed by rental income from the Seagram Building do not merit the 'AAA' rating assigned by Kroll Bond Rating Agency and Moody's Investors Service.

United Auto Credit Corporation (UACC) is getting ready to roll out a roughly $150-million securitization of subprime auto loans.

Redwood Trust is rolling out its seventh jumbo mortgage securitization of the year; the $453 million deal has greater seller diversity, less geographic concentration.

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.