Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. is out of the starting blocks in 2016 with a $1 billion auto loan securitization in its first pool of loans of the year.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is reducing the mortgage insurance premiums it charges on Federal Housing Administration multifamily loans to encourage the renovation of affordable housing units and promote energy-efficient upgrades.

Another online lender specializing in student loan refinancing, Earnest, is tapping the securitization market for $112 million.

Paragon Mortgage may be scaling back its loan securitizations in 2016, with plans to utilize the increased deposit base at parent Paragon Bank to fund more originations of its core “buy-to-let” mortgage business to family landlords.

Commercial mortgage securitization may be off to a slow start, but one of the first conduit deals of the year has one of the main hallmarks of 2015: credit barbelling.

WinWater Home Mortgage’s first prime jumbo securitization of the year is backed by a mix of 15-year and 30-year loans, according to DBRS.

The way the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is regulating the auto finance industry's relationships with dealers is simply wrong — both legally and ethically. It's also directly counterproductive to its goal of protecting consumers.

Bank of American is marketing $166 million of bonds backed by a commercial mortgage on One Channel Center, 500,000 square foot office building and adjacent parking garage in Boston, according to Standard & Poor’s

Freddie Mac has priced a $757 million offering of structured pass-through certificates under its “K Certificates” program that securitizes recently originated multifamily mortgage loans.

The first three issues of U.S. prime jumbo residential mortgage bonds issued since the financial crisis have been called without any loss, Fitch Ratings reported Monday.

HomeUnion, an online, real-estate investment management firm specializing in single-family rental properties, named Vivek Pendharkar as chief development officer.