Volkswagen will stage a return to market with its $1 billion retail auto loans deal issued from its auto loan enhanced trust.

The $746.8 million deal is the lender’s sixth securitization of Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) non-consolidation loans so far this year.

SolarCity plans to issue a $54.42 million private placement of solar asset backed notes, the company said in a press release today.

View year-to-date issuance through Nov. 22 for ABS, MBS and CMBS.

View the year-to-date manager rankings through Nov. 15 for the different ABS sectors, including real estate, credit cards and autos

Trepp’s CMBS delinquency rate hit a new low of 8% in October, a level this asset class hasn’t seen since early 2010.

Direct exposure to either J.C. Penney or Sears is typically highest in seasoned deals where there are only a small number of loans remaining, and one is secured by a retail property.

There's been a resurgence of issuance in bonds backed by both shipping container leases and aircraft operating leases. They share keysimilarities: highly cyclical industries, utilization and lease rate dynamics, and weak(er) lessee profiles/concentrations.

A pick-up in structured finance transactions from life insurance companies based in New York is likely to happen soon because the state recently decided to stop testing a new framework for calculating reserves.

A pick-up in structured finance transactions from life insurance companies based in New York is likely to happen soon because the state recently decided to stop testing a new framework for calculating reserves.

Banks have been slow to make credit cards available again to subprime borrowers; that's starting to change.

Card issuers are again lending to weaker borrowers; It’s just a matter of time before the receivables show up in trusts.