Magnetar Capital LLC confirmed today that it has hired Carlos Mendez and Josh Eaton, both previously at Sandler O'Neill & Partners' structured finance group, to its fixed income group.

Moody's Investors Service published an "unsolicited" comment today, warning investors that it would not have assigned a 'Aaa' rating to the senior notes in the Royal Bank of Scotland's Isobel Finance No.1 PLC deal; Europe's first non-performing real estate loan portfolio CMBS.

Springleaf Financial is planning a RMBS structured with one senior note, four mezzanine notes, two subordinate notes, one residual note, and one trust certificate, according to a Standard & Poor's presale report.

Shellpoint Partners' RMBS structure will accept loans facilitated by loan brokers and correspondents.

Fairway Outdoor Advertising has a $257 million billboard, whole-business securitization deal in the works, according to Fitch Ratings.

PHH Corp and Automotive Rentals, Inc. are in the market in the market with securitizations of fleet lease backed notes sized at $450 million and a $419mn respectively.

The U.K. is one of the few countries in Europe where securitization remains a significant funding source for mortgage originators but cheap central bank funding schemes and renewed economic deterioration could crowd out issuance and push up arrears, according to a Standard & Poor's report.

Increased new issue volumes and near record lows in the consumer ABS spreads have led to slightly wider spreads in both the primary and secondary markets, according to two securitization market reports.

It's been a very active year for non-traditional ABS. Almost $19bn in issuance year to date; higher than the full year in this space for any year since 2007, according to figures reported by Barclays.

Kroll gave the $189.2-million A tranche of the $272.75 million transaction a ‘AAA (sf)’ rating.

Natixis will acquire McDonnell Investment Management, the Oak Brook, Illinois-based investment advisor with approximately $13.5 billion in assets under management, the company said today in a press release.