The $4.27 billion RMBS sale from the ING Illiquid Asset Back-up Facility (IABF) portfolio did not negatively impact secondary pricing or RMBS bonds this week.

Banks that want to keep their holdings of collateralized loan obligations will likely face an uphill battle getting these investments in compliance with the Volcker Rule, according to Wells Fargo.

The floating-rate commercial mortgage securitization, dubbed Annaly 2014-FL1, has been assigned preliminary ratings by Kroll Bond Ratings.

Sallie Mae priced an upsized, $994 million student loan securitization, according to a regulatory filing.

Chase Bank upsized its first credit card securitization of the year to $1.75 billion on Thursday, according to a regulatory filing. That was more than double the $750 million originally offered.

Ally Financial priced the subordinate tranches on its upsized $1.25 billion subprime auto loan ABS deal at wider spreads than Santander’s deal issued last week.

Chase Bank plans to issue a $500 million credit card securitization that could be upsized based on investor demand.

The CMBS pipeline bulked up with the of a $1.1 billion conduit from Deutsche Bank affiliate German American Capital Corp. and a $620 million single-loan deal from Cantor Fitzgerald.

Two more collateralized loan obligations hit the new issue pipeline this week, despite uncertainty about the impact of the Volcker Rule on this market.

The series 2014-T1 and series 2014-T2 notes will offer notes ranging from ‘AAA’ to ‘BBB’, according to a Standard & Poor’s presale report.

Nine CMBS deals have exposure to the 33 underperforming stores JCPenney plans to close beginning this year.

Standard & Poor's expects a modest increase in the issuance of European securitizations sold to investors this year from 2013.