In late April, the Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool issued its first catastrophe bond; conditions would seem are ripe for other emerging markets to follow suit.

The Prime Collateralised Securities initiative, announced a year ago, has been adopted by issuers but it still gaining credibility with regulators.

Llyods TSB proceeded with a portion of its $8.7 billion of legacy non-agency RMBS paper on Thursday afternoon, selling the paper to four different groups.

Draghi looks to ABS market as way to lift Europe’s small businesses —and economy.

EverBank plans to tap the capital markets with its second RMBS deal of the year, a $303.3 million deal called EverBank Mortgage Loan Trust 2013-2.

Anchorage Capital is prepping a $412 million collateralized loan obligation, according to Fitch Ratings.

Redwood Trust yesterday filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its eighth jumbo mortgage securitization of the year.

Clydesdale Bank announced the latest series of notes to be issued from its U.K. RMBS master trust program, Lanark that will offer both U.S. dollar and sterling tranches.

Lewtan said today that Miten Amin joins the firm as director of market applications and Youriy Koudinov joins as director of market applications and securitized products research.

The delinquency rate for legacy CMBS transactions rose in May after having posted its low reading in the previous month, according to Credit Suisse.

Sallie Mae’s proposal to split itself into two publicly traded separate entities -- an education loan management and a consumer banking company -- would be neutral to mildly positive for the company’s ABS.

Nationstar plans to issue over $2 billion in servicer advance and deferred servicing fee receivables-backed bonds.