Scott Brown will be the firm’s next President beginning Feb. 3. He takes over the role from David J. Reilly, who remains Cornerstone’s Chief Executive Officer.

The $500 million deal called Exeter Automobile Receivables Trust 2014-1 has been assigned preliminary ratings by Standard & Poor’s.

Changes to Turkey’s covered bond legislation are supportive of the credit ratings on these instruments, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

Discover Financial Services plans to start offering loans that help college graduates consolidate and refinance their student debt sometime in 2014.

The deal dubbed Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2014-A adds $1.13 billion of prime auto loan-backed bonds to the pipeline.

The rising costs for banks to hold even low-risk, short-term loans — courtesy of Basel III — is a powerful incentive for them to offload their trade finance receivables into securitizations.

Goldman Sachs and Citigroup’s CMBS conduit GSMS 2014-GC18, priced bonds wide of guidance issued earlier this week.

Alcentra is marketing a €413.5 Million European collateralized loan obligation.

Market participants should weigh on Basel’s latest consultative document in order to strengthen safety and soundness in growing global securitization markets.

The deal, which has been assigned preliminary ratings by Fitch Ratings, Moody’s Investors Service and DBRS, will offer six tranches of triple-A rated bonds structured with 30% credit enhancement.

Players in the REO-to-Rental space see a bright future in pooling the cash flows of many operators into conduit transactions.

MeasureOne, a new data provider focused exclusively on student loans, launched its first database at the ABS Vegas conference.