U.S. consumers are increasingly using their credit cards rather than tapping home-equity credit lines to pay debts or finance a big purchase, according to Sanford C. Bernstein.

German insurer Hannover Re is coming to market to offload its exposure to catastrophic damage from earthquakes on the western coast of the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Banco Santander is preparing another securitization of high leveraged, prime residential, Spanish mortgage loans to be issued from its Fondo de Titulizacion de Activos trust.

Alliance Laundry Systems, who last came to market in 2013, sold $400 million of ‘A’, Standard & Poor’s rated securities.

Santander Consumer USA priced an upsized, $1 billion offering of bonds backed by subprime auto bonds this week.

Midwestern University, a not-for-profit graduate school specializing in health sciences, is getting back into the lending business.

Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp has priced $750 million of securities backed by auto leases, according to a regulatory filing.

GAP store closures could impact $7.2 billion of commercial mortgage bonds.

New Residential Mortgage is marketing $334.5 million of bonds backed by a pool of residential mortgages to borrowers who were once delinquent but are now making timely payments.

Citigroup’s latest CMBS offers up the usual mix of commercial real estate properties; but the pools exposure to hotel properties has decreased significantly relative to recent conduits.

Morgan Stanley is tapping the securitization market with a $885.4 million commercial mortgage conduit transaction.