The December FOMC minutes have cause doubts of whether the Fed will tweak asset purchases under QE3 but analysts at Barclays said MBS purchases are likely to stay the same.

Standard & Poor’s said Monday that the pipeline for structured finance issuance has hit $3.4 billion.

Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation kicked off its 2013 auto securitization issuance with a $1 billion deal, Nissan Auto Receivables 2013-A Owner Trust.

The private-label mortgage-backed securities market can make more of a comeback this year due to factors like the agencies’ rising guarantee fees, scarcity of higher-yielding assets for investment and home price appreciation.

Bank of America Corp. reached agreements with Fannie Mae to settle all repurchase and certain other claims surrounding mortgage loans originated by Countrywide Financial Corp from 2000 through 2008.

Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC, the global risk and reinsurance specialist, announced today that Andrew Beecroft and Paul Rayner have been appointed as managing directors of GC Securities.

Morgan Stanley and Bank of America are marketing a $1.2bn commercial mortgage-backed securitization deal.

Film studios will have to change their approach to securitization to attract more investors.

Santander Consumer USA is marketing its $1.25 billion auto receivables securitization deal, kicking off the year for auto ABS primary issuance in 2013.

Annualized net losses among securitizations of subprime auto loans rose to 6.72% in November, an increase of 4.4% from October and 0.5% from November of 2011.

See results from the Mortgage Bankers Association's Refinance and Purchase Indexes for the week ended Nov. 30 as well as the weekly mortgage rates surveyed by Freddie Mac for the week ended Dec. 6.