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.

Federal Home Loan Bank members are wary of nondepositories gaining access to district bank securitization programs..

The Carlyle Group said today it has closed a $415 million collateralized loan obligation, its sixth CLO of 2013.

Deutsche Bank priced t the $479 million Invitation Homes 2013-SFR1 REO-to-rental securitization 5 basis points to 35 basis points tighter than initial guidance, a person familiar with the deal confirmed.

Standard & Poor’s assigned the $54.42 million, Series 2013-1 deal deal a preliminary ‘BBB+’ratings.

The agency raised the B tranche rating to 'AA+' from 'AA' initially and the D tranche to 'BBB+' from 'BBB.' The deal, by First Investors, priced only last week and was upsized to $250m from $206m originally.

The 10-year, AAA-rated A4 bonds in J.P. Morgan Chase Mortgage Securities Trust 2013-C16 2013-C16 and Goldman Sach’s GSMS 2013-GCJ16 , priced at 96 basis points and 108 basis points over swaps respectively.

The largest tranche, for $327 million, priced at 108 basis points over swaps a bit outside the price talk of 95-100 basis points.