Bank of America is following Wells Fargo by putting out for sale the last of its federally guaranteed student loans; it may well repurchase them one day if they are securitized.

Bank of America is preparing to issue the year's first securitization of credit card receivables via its BA Credit Card Trust.

The Justice Department is seeking to advance a more-than-five-year probe into whether Moody's Investors Service inflated ratings during the U.S. housing boom, according to three people familiar with matter.

Opus Capital Markets Consultants (CMC), a leader in mortgage due diligence and a wholly owned subsidiary of Wipro Limited has hired William Shuey as director of securitization.

Ally plans to issue two transactions backed by dealer floorplan receivables during a week where primary securitization volumes were largely driven by the asset class.

JP Morgan and Barclays plan to securitize 44 commercial mortgage loans that total $836.5 million. The loans are secured by 91 properties.

Thomson Reuters data on issuance of ABS, RMBS and CMBS for the year through January 30, 2015.

Asset-backed securities that priced in the two weeks ended January 30, 2015.

Societe Generale marked its return to the US CMBS conduit market this week with the announcement that it hired an 11 strong CMBS team from the Royal Bank of Scotland.

GE priced $775 million over two series of notes delivered from the issuer’s dealer floorplan master note trust, according to a pricing document.

The commercial real estate market breathed a sigh of relief when Congress finally renewed the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act on Jan. 12, nearly two weeks after it had expired. But borrowers and loan servicers are still dealing with headaches created by this short gap in coverage.

Investors bought an extra $400 million of Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp’s dealer floorplan securitization and will get a chance to bid on a couple of new deals Ford began marketing today.