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.

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Direct Capital Corporation plans to issue a $181 million securitization of equipment lease backed notes.

Morgan Stanley and Bank of America will issue a $1.3 billion CMBS conduit that has been assigned preliminary rating by Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA).

Extraordinary expenses in RMBS transactions could either expose senior RMBS bondholders to losses or the structure to ratings volatility, depending on how they are paid, according to a Kroll Bond Rating Agency report.

ACIS Capital Management is prepping a $849.43 million collateralized loan obligation, according to a presale report from Standard & Poor’s.

Barclays plans to market the first deal issued this year from the bank’s credit card securitization trust called Dryrock.

Through bitter experience, bond purchasers learned about the moral hazard embedded in private RMBS and their grossly inadequate legal protections.