Philip Darivoff will serve as chairman of the board of DFG and its parent company, Vibrant Capital Partners.

For the first time since the financial crisis, the market of private label commercial mortgage backed securities is more active than those deals coming from government-sponsoredf agencies.

The Series 2013-2 notes are backed by 406 commercial real estate properties across various industry sectors, including related rents due under triple-net leases and hybrid leases with the properties' tenants.

Sallie Mae is remarketing $180 million of federally guaranteed student-loan backed securities issued in 2005, according to a regulatory filing.

Fitch Ratings has assigned a preliminary ‘AAAsf’ rating to the $500-million class A notes of Discover Card’s upcoming securitization of credit card receivables.

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is prepping a catastrophe bond that is the first to have triggers linked only to storm surge and no other aspect of hurricane-related risks,

There is little proof that a doubling of guarantee fees in the last year by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has brought private investors back into the mortgage market, says the FHFA's inspector general.

Honda is planning to issue $1 billion of securities backed by auto loans, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Goldman Sachs has established price talk on four classes of ‘AAA’-rated notes to be issued by its latest commercial mortgage backed securities conduit, GSMS 2013-GC13, according to a regulatory filing.

Discover Bank is planning a $500 million credit card debt securitization, according to a regulatory filing today.

Intermediate Capital Group priced a €400 million cash flow collateralized loan obligation, its third since the financial crisis.

U.S. issuers have engaged Standard & Poor’s to rate 35 collateralized loan obligations totaling $16.5 billion as of July 3, flat to the previous week.