While Clean Power Finance and others are focused on residential solar financing, Mercatus (formerly SCS Renewables) has turned its attention to what it calls “the next big growth opportunity”: securitization funding for commercial and industrial solar projects.

ALBIS Mobil Lease GmbH, UTA Leasing GmbH, and Kögel Leasing GmbH plan to issue up to €147.23 million backed by leases made to the German small and midsize enterprise (SME) sector .

Pricing on Ohio’s FirstEnergy utility securitization are expected to price on the tight end of guidance on the back of the historically low rates for benchmark U.S. Treasury and U.S. Agency debt.

Freddie Mac is marketing multifamily mortgage-backed securitizations for a combined total of approximately $3.5 billion.

Sallie Mae closed a new, $6.8 billion credit facility that will allow it to exit the Straight A funding program ahead of schedule.

Louisiana Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp. trustees gave swift approval Tuesday to the controversial refinancing of up to $720 million of outstanding tobacco settlement revenue bonds.

Bank of America is preparing to jump into the consumer ABS issuance frenzy with a new deal from its rarely used Bank of America Auto Trust.

Iconix Brand Group is planning to issue a securitization of flows from brand licensing for $250 million, the company said in a release.

The Structured Finance Industry Group has hired Falcon Capital Advisors as well as a consultancy run by Kristi Leo to help it attract new members and pursue its legislative agenda.

Fitch, in a press release today, stated that while the recovering U.S. housing market and macro stability are bolstering remnant U.S. RMBS performance lately, persistent challenges remain for the sector to overcome. Fitch said that because pre-crisis RMBS transactions are still facing challenges, rating improvement will remain limited in the near term and it only expects future upgrades to come to RMBS classes with relatively short remaining lives within sequential payment priority transactions.

The Massachusetts Education Financing Authority (MEFA, or the authority) is offering $304.72 million of its Education Loan Revenue Issue K bonds. The fixed-rate Series 2013 is the first issuance under the Issue K indenture, a master trust.

PFS Financing Corp plans to issue a $282 million securitization backed by insurance premium finance loans, which are usually installment loans that have less-than-one-year duration.