Kroll Bond Ratings Agency plans to rate the M1 and M2 notes of Freddie Mac's latest $966 million risk-share securitization, STACR 2014-DN2.

General Electric Capital Corp plans to issue $718.95 million of securities backed by commercial finance leases from its GE Equipment Small Ticket trust. Series 2014-1.

Mercedes Benz Financial Services (MBFS) USA is coming around the pike with a nearly $1.37 billion auto lease-backed deal, the first this year off this program.

Deutsche Bank and Cantor Fitzgerald priced a $925 million of commercial mortgage backed securities via their COMM 2014-CCRE16 conduit.

Commercial mortgage bonds should take store closures announced by Walgreens in stride, despite widespread exposure to the drugstore chain, according to JP Morgan.

Two academics at Michigan Technology University argue that aggreggating standardized assets is key to solar securitization, which can meaningfully reduce funding costs for developers.

Freddie Mac's $966 million STACR 2014-DN2 deal, its second offering of STACR notes this year, is being pre-marketed this week, according to an Interactive Data Report.

Goldman Sachs and Citigroup priceda $1.2 billion commercial mortgage backed securities conduit, according to a regulatory filing.

Chase priced $1.425 billion of credit card backed securities Thursday, according to a regulatory filing; the offering was upsized from $1 billion originally.

Standard & Poor's is unlikely to upgrade its ratings on nonbank commercial lenders over the next two years because increased competition for both secured and asset-based credit facilities has led to looser underwriting standards.

A proposal by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) designed to reduce counterparty risk in the forward market for mortgage bonds troubles some market participants, who say that the measures could have the opposite effect.

Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Merrill Lynch priced a $934 billion commercial mortgage backed securitization dubbed MSBAM 2014-C15.