Securitization

The commercial mortgage-backed securities delinquency rate improved from October to November, according to Fitch Ratings.

In their search for ways to shift the credit risk of mortgages from taxpayers to capital markets, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may be overlooking important players: the lenders that make these loans in the first place.

Most investors in a JPMorgan survey said they want to ditch the pricing benchmark now used for a variety of asset-backed bonds — the swaps curve — and go back to Treasuries. But it's not so easy.

Freddie Mac plans to issue $976 million of multifamily mortgage-backed securities later this week.

Javelin Mortgage Investment has negotiated a rebate agreement with its manager and taken other steps in a bid to reduce expenses by about $2.1 million.

CarVal Investors, which made its debut in the securitization market just last month, is back with a second helping of bonds backed by reperforming mortgages

Securitizations that involve commercial mortgages are increasingly dropping loans from their pools before the final transactions close, according to Fitch Ratings.

The Morgan Stanley settlement follows a similar agreement with Barclays Capital in October that resulted in a recovery of $325 million.

Moody's said it has acquired BlackBox Logic, a Denver-based residential mortgage-backed securities data technology company, for an undisclosed amount of cash.

A former Jefferies & Co. managing director accused of lying to customers about bond prices had his fraud conviction overturned in the latest blow to the government’s effort to hold individuals accountable for alleged wrongdoing on Wall Street.

Onslow Bay is making its debut in the securitization market with $231 million of bonds backed by mortgage loans the real estate investment trust acquired from several lenders, according to Standard & Poor's.

Seven years after the housing bubble collapsed, Wall Street's appetite for riskier mortgages is returning.

Fannie Mae just took out a potential chunk of private label CMBS supply. The government-sponsored enterprise said it's helping fund Blackstone's purchase of Stuyvesant Town.

When news broke in October that New York's Stuyvesant Town was being sold, observers expected the $3 billion loan on the property to be paid off without a glitch.

JPMorgan is sounding the alarm about bank capital rules on the horizon that could nearly wipe out secondary trading in most kinds of asset-backed securities.

Private real estate investors and community-based financial institutions have developed innovative ways to preserve affordable-housing units that were in danger of losing subsidies, according to a new report.

The commercial mortgage-backed securities delinquency rate improved by double-digit basis points in November, fulfilling Trepp's forecast for a large monthly improvement.

Commercial-mortgaged-backed, auto-loan and other securitizations use what is known as the swaps curve to price floating-rate deals. But pricing volatility is causing some to ask whether the market should go back to Treasuries after a 15-year hiatus.

Commercial mortgages bundled into securities will keep seeing their underwriting standards deteriorate from this year into 2016, said JPMorgan analysts in a report Wednesday.

Pacific Investment Management Co. sued Citigroup Inc. over the bank's role as trustee for $13.8 billion of mortgage-backed securities made toxic when the housing bubble burst, leading to "substantial damages."