Securitization

Former Jefferies & Co. Managing Director Jesse Litvak says he should be spared prison when he is sentenced later this month following his conviction of a single count of fraud.

Agency mortgage-backed securities issuance increased in 2016, rising to $1.6 trillion from $1.3 trillion, while nonagency mortgage securitization issuance decreased.

Late payments on securitized commercial mortgages rose again in March, led by industrial and retail property loans.

Fourteen institutional investors represented by the law firm Gibbs & Bruns are supporting the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy plan administrator's offer to settle certain securitized mortgage repurchase claims with securities' trustees.

Deutsche Bank is finding that there just isn't enough soured U.S. mortgage debt anymore.

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan said the central bank should roll off both mortgage-backed securities and Treasury holdings when it begins to let its balance sheet shrink.

Shellpoint is marketing another offering of private-label mortgage bonds backed primarily by loans it acquired rather than loans originated by its own New Penn subsidiary.

With interest rates on the rise, analysts say the Fed could start shrinking its unprecedented $1.75 trillion position in mortgage-backed securities by year-end.

Wells Fargo's next offering of commercial mortgage bonds is unusually concentrated in a relatively small number of large loans, though many are high-quality properties located in strong markets.

A $165 million cash settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit that alleged investors were misled about the safety of mortgage-backed securities comprised of loans originated by now-defunct subprime lender NovaStar Mortgage Inc.

Industry critics argue the Invitation Homes deal will create new risks for Fannie Mae and remove affordable inventory from homebuyers.

Goldman Sachs is selling $1.02 billion of bonds refinancing the Blackstone Group's acquisition of the Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower.

Wall Street speculators are zeroing in on the next U.S. credit crisis: the mall.

Mill City Holdings is returning to market with its fourth securitization of reperforming residential mortgages, this time with a sliver of home equity lines of credit added to the mix of collateral.

The HUD inspector general reignited an ongoing dispute with housing regulators, saying $29 billion of Federal Housing Administration mortgages may be at risk because they relied on deceptive borrower-financed down-payment assistance.

Rising interest rates have slowed a recent run of unexpectedly high prepayments of government-insured mortgages, making servicing rights for loans held in Ginnie Mae securities more attractive to investors.

Angel Oak, a regular issuer of nonprime residential mortgage bonds, is marketing its first transaction with a credit rating.

Late payments on securitized commercial mortgages resumed climbing in February, after an unexpected pause the previous month, according to Trepp.

New Residential Investment Corp. is readying an offering of bonds backed by both reperforming and nonperforming mortgages.