Velocity Commercial Capital is launching a small-balance commercial mortgage securitization, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Ocwen Financial Corp. is in talks to sell a nearly 5% stake to its biggest client, New Residential Investment Corp., as part of a deal that would finalize a long-expected sale of mortgage servicing rights.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Monday reiterated his goal of tackling housing finance reform within the next year, an aggressive plan for resolving a matter that has long flummoxed Congress.

First Key preps its second reperforming RMBS of the year; April CLO count reaches $29.8 billion; Toyota, Nissan file plans for notes backed by auto loans and dealer inventory financing.

Hunton & Williams continues its national expansion with the arrival of corporate partner John J. Dedyo in the firm’s New York office.

Ocwen Financial's recent regulatory troubles may open the door for New Residential Investment Corp. to transfer its massive subservicing portfolio to an affiliate, Nationstar Mortgage Holdings; that could either slow or speed up repayment of bonds backed by its advance receivables.

Issuance volume of asset-backed securities for the year through April 28, 2017.

A single-borrower deal and a conduit commercial mortgage securitization priced this week, bringing private-label issuance for April to $3.6 billion – barely half of March’s $7 billion.

Firms that offer loans to small-time landlords have been slow to tap the securitization market. So far there has only been one transaction with a public credit rating, in December 2016. Yet bundling these loans into collateral for bonds provides attractive financing.

The London office of Commerzbank AG Debt Fund Management is pricing its third overall CLO in a with a senior loan portfolio targeted at €346.2 million.

Citibank Credit Card Issuance Trust is issuing its latest revolving Citiseries securitization through $1.1 billion in notes backed by prime credit-card receivables. Also, IHS Market notes the tightening spreads in many U.S. consumer ABS asset classes.

Bram Smith is retiring as executive director of the Loans Syndication & Trading Association effective at year’s end, the trade group announced Thursday. Smith has been with the LSTA for nine years, joining as interim executive director in September 2008 before he was installed as permanent ED in December 2009.