This week the National Bank of Canada became the fourth bank to establish a covered bonds program under the 2012 Canadian covered bonds legal framework.

The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) approved a securitization that cover most of the costs tied to retiring Consumers Energy’s 950MW of older, coal-fired plants.

Some banks will have to restructure their programs to comply, but they've already invested so much work in complying with other new regulations that they're unlikely to pull the plug now.

The Dutch State Treasury, on Wednesday, sold $5.1 billion of non-agency RMBS held in the ING illiquid assets back-up facility to 5 dealers.

At one point during the budget negotiations, it appeared a hike in g-fees was on the table until Senate Banking Committee leaders got wind of it and raised objections.

JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo priced a $1.2 billion CMBS that is backed by the Aventura Mall located in Aventura, Fl.

Price guidance has been issued for Social Finance’s first “peer-to-peer” lending securitization deal.

Spirit, the Scottsdale, Ariz. triple-net lease REIT, is preparing a $330 million commercial net lease mortgage-backed securitization.

Issuers had engaged Standard & Poor’s to rate 32 collateralized loan obligations totaling $14.8 billion as of Nov. 29.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to increase charges known as guarantee fees, or g-fees, that are embedded in the cost of home loans to protect investors from losses.

Chase Bank priced an upsized offering of $750 million of bonds backed by credit card receivables from its Chase Issuance Trust.