Securitization

Morgan Stanley said New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman intends to sue the company, alleging it misrepresented or omitted information when underwriting 30 subprime securitizations.

Embattled mortgage servicer Ocwen Financial faces up to $26 billion in damage claims by bondholders and a greater risk of being fired as a mortgage servicer on thousands of small, private-label trusts.

Standard & Poor's had more than two times more upgrades than downgrades in 2014.

Fresh questions are being asked about the role of investors in the rental market and how their eventual exit may impact mortgage lending, property values and the economic recovery.

Some nonbanks feel capital requirements discourage diversification among market participants and their participation in the market because they put more constraints on their financial options and bar smaller players.

Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $2.6 billion to settle probes into its creation and sale of residential mortgage-backed securities, as the U.S. Department of Justice holds another large Wall Street firm to account for the 2008 financial crisis.

Wells Fargo is offering $1 billion of commercial mortgage bonds via the WFCM 2015-C27 conduit, according to a Kroll Bond Rating Agency presale report.

A rally in a growing type of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securities is vindicating Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc.'s decision to be a big player in the market.

American Homes 4 Rent is pushing the maturity envelope with its latest single-family rental securitization.

With the economy recovering, Chris Hurn saw an opportunity to start another company focused on Small Business Administration 504 loans — his longtime specialty — and spread the word to business owners about the benefits of owning their facilities.

New Residential Investment Corp., a U.S. real estate investment trust, agreed to buy Home Loan Servicing Solutions for about $1.3 billion.

Recent court decisions against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders have put to rest the notion that the two mortgage giants exist as anything but instrumentalities of the U.S. government, according to a report by Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

If you want to know what a Greek exit from the euro would do to the €16.7 billion ($19 billion) of bonds out there backed by Greek assets, a good place to start is Argentina.

Fannie Mae's first risk-share transaction of the year is for $1.5 billion.

Freddie Mac will return $900 million to the Treasury Department next month, bringing total payments to nearly $21 billion above what it received in federal aid after the 2008 credit crisis.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who forced Wall Street's biggest banks to pay billions in fines for their roles in the subprime mortgage crisis, is pressing for action against executives at those firms, even as he prepares to leave his post.

Deutsche Bank has pooled 67 fixed-rate commercial mortgages, secured by 81 properties, in a $1.4 billion securitization called COMM 2015-DC1.

One of the culprits in the building and bursting of the nation's housing bubble, the low-down-payment mortgage, is back in favor and readily available at a lender near you.

Delinquencies of new commercial mortgage-backed securities finished January at a post-recession low, according to Fitch Ratings.

Great Ajax Corp., a Maryland-based real estate investment trust, priced its IPO Friday.