Volkswagen increased its auto lease VWALT 2014-A ABS by $500 million to $1.5 billion on the back of strong investor interest.

More than 65 investors participated in Freddie Mac latest Structured Agency Credit Risk deal, an oversubscribed offering of credit protection on a $31 billion reference pool of mortgages.

New York regulators halted Ocwen Financial's (OCN) deal to buy a mortgage servicing portfolio from Wells Fargo (WFC) out of concern that the nonbank is growing too fast.

Over four fifths of the collateralized loan obligations reporting to Standard & Poor’s have at least one asset in their underlying portfolio that is not a loan.

CNH Capital America is in the market with its first equipment lease securitization this year, according to a deal term sheet filed with the Securities Exchange Commission.

Bank of America priced its first credit card securitization in nearly four years at tighter spreads to competitors even though the offering was more than doubled the size, to $1.75 billion from $750 million originally

Barclays’ head of covered bond structuring, Americas, Riz Sheikh is among the people let go by the bank during its latest round of layoffs.

Credit Suisse, Barclays, and JP Morgan are the lead underwriters on the transaction dubbed The deal, Fifth Third Auto Trust 2014-1.

Demand for catastrophe bonds and other insurance linked securities far outstrips supply, with predicatable results.

The European Commission’s proposed new Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) will have the most impact on covered bonds in 2014, becasue the bonds are not be subject to a so-called “bail-in", said Standard & Poor’s.

Credit Suisse Asset Management is joining the still thin ranks of managers marketing collateralized loan obligations before regulators clarify how the Volcker Rule will impact these deals.