Smaller companies that perform residential mortgage servicing are rapidly growing their loan portfolios — and not just in the default servicing space, according to Fitch Ratings.

Last week the European arm of Pinebridge Investments refinanced the Euro-Galaxy III CLO, a collateralized loan obligation originally issued in 2013, to reprice the entire transaction, according to Standard & Poor's.

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Smaller institutions have increased the size of their auto books in the last year, with the 25 most-active lenders reporting a nearly 7% increase. More borrower demand and a pullback by some bigger lenders are contributing to the rise.

It is not a clear-cut statement to say Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac need more capital, and it detracts from the real debate over long-term housing finance reform.

LCM is almost completely overhauling its $465.5 million LCM XIII portfolio in ways beyond just extending its reinvestment period so as to preserve an exemption from forthcoming U.S. risk-retention rules.

SoFi Lending Corp. is testing the market for private student loans to slightly riskier borrowers.

Issuance volume of asset-backed securities for the year through December 16, 2016.

Underwriting league tables for asset-backed securities for the year through December 16, 2016.

A regulatory 2017 scorecard for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac calls on the firms to transfer a significant portion of credit risk to third-party private investors on at least 90% of unpaid principal balance of newly acquired single-family mortgages.

Bayview Asset Management is prepping another securitization of mortgages it acquired from CitiFinancial that were once delinquent but are now making timely payments.