Citigroup is prepping a conduit commercial mortgage-backed securitization for $867 million.

NXT Capital, a midldle market lender and CLO manager, has expanded its direct originations team by hiring Doug Vitek, John Mills and Daniel Green.

Hertz is marketing its third bond offering backed by fleet leases.

Lloyds Bank will offer a two-year, $750 million tranche in Penarth 2013-1.

The $247 million securitization is California Republic Bank's third deal since its debut deal in Nov. 2012.

Concern is mounting among investors and analysts that Nationstar, Ocwen Financial and Walter Investment are getting so big so quickly that they are becoming too difficult to manage.

Freddie Mac has purchased reinsurance for some of the same exposure to losses on residential mortgages that it has unloaded to investors through issuance of general obligation bonds.

Standard & Poor’s has assigned preliminary ratings to the upcoming deal called Fastnet Securities 9. Morgan Stanley is lead arranger on the deal.

A number (11) of European CLOs issued before the financial crisis are ripe for redemption, and this could free up loans to be used as collateral in new deals, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

Analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch see value in "selectively" buying higher mezzanine tranches of asset-backed deals from issuers in the European peripheral countries. They think going down the capital stack in core country deals is a good idea as well.

Arranged by Citigroup, the deal is CNH's third equipment lease securitization this year.