American consumers continue to shed debt and cut down on their late payments - with the notable exception of student loans. But does this mean that originations are going to rev up soon?

Fannie Mae stepped up to bat with a rated version of therisk share security first introduced to the market in July by Freddie Mac. Fitch Ratings assigned the deal ‘BBB-’.

Springleaf plans to issue its third subprime RMBS of the 2013. The latest deal is sized at $344.2 million, according to a Standard & Poor’s presale report.

ABN Amro announced a 5-year, €500 million ($367 million) prime Dutch RMBS from its Dolphin Master Issuer program.

The European Central Bank said at a press conference on Wednesday that it was considering accepting mezzanine securitization tranches as eligible repo collateral.

Deutsche Bank and Cantor Fitzgerald priced a $813.87 million commercial mortgage backed securitization, COMM-CCRE11,

Wells Fargo said in a report today that without an increase in credit cards and student loan deals, the securitization volume of consumer assets aren’t likely to grow either.

Barclays priced its first deal issued this year from the bank’s Dryrock credit card securitization trust.

Goldman Sachs is in the market with a $675 million CMBS backed by a loan that is secured by the borrower’s fee interest in a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The State of Washington is planning to issue $344.39 million of bonds backed by tobacco settlement revenues, according to a presale report by Standard & Poor’s.

Ratings agency reports are reassuring investors that, in some cases, transfers of mortgage servicing rights from one servicer to another do not have a negative impact on mortgage-backed securities.