Private-label

Five Oak Investment Corp, a real estate investment trust that manages a portfolio of agency and nonagency RMBS, is back with a second securitization this year, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce said there's "no merit" to a lawsuit filed by a unit of Cerberus Capital Management LP accusing the bank of defaulting on payments tied to U.S. real estate.

Ditech Financial is tapping the securitization market to fund advances of principal and interest payments to mortgage bondholders.

B2R Holdings, the parent company of B2R Finance, which lends to landlords, has rebranded as Lending.com.

Bank mortgage servicers suffered bigger loan losses in three high foreclosure states than their nonbank counterparts, a Moody's Investors Service report suggests.

JPMorgan Chase has paid off $3.56 billion of the $4 billion it owes in consumer relief credit as part of a 2013 settlement over marred mortgage-backed securities issued before the crisis.

MountainView Capital Holdings is offering up for bid an $80 million, servicing-released pool of performing and distressed mortgages, some of which the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. jointly owns.

What's it going to take to boost annual issuance of private-label RMBS roughly tenfold to $100 billion-$150 billion?

Policies that seek to increase homeownership by extending more credit to homeowners are misguided, according to former Federal Housing Finance Agency chief Edward DeMarco.

Heartland Financial USA has hired Insuritas to help it expand its insurance business.