By agreeing to buy Clayton Holdings for $305 million, Radian Group is essentially betting that the private mortgage securitization market will make a comeback.

BofA and Chase have both priced credit card securitization deals worth a total of $2 billion.

A new funding alternative for energy efficiency lending could help the U.S. meet the $200 billion shortfall in financing to make homes more energy efficient.

Over the week ended May 6, the pipeline of collateralized loan obligations being rated by Standard & Poor’s decreased, to $11.87 billion, from $15.75 billion the previous week.

Hyundai priced $1.325 billion of securities backed by prime auto loans, according to a regulatory filing

EFG Private Bank’s RMBS is backed by loans that are secured by London and South East England properties.

Credit Foncier de France is marketing the first securitization of French residential mortgage since 2006, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

CarMax priced an upsized, $987 million offering of bonds backed by prime auto loans, according to a regulatory filing.

Citigroup and BofA Merrill Lynch are lead underwriters on $257 million of commercial mortgage bonds deal backed by a floating-rate loan that is secured by two hotel properties, according to Morningstar.

Bank of America has filed a new credit card securitization with the SEC, only three months after the originator returned to the market following a four year hiatus.

Collateralized loan obligations outperformed in the crisis. If regulators can exempt a vast swath of mortgages from risk-retention requirements, surely they can do the same for senior, secured corporate loans.