Until recently private student loans were the laggards in the recovery of the U.S. securitization market, but demand is picking up.

As new deal volume in the private label RMBS market continues to ramp up, so do questions from investors about how these deals will evolve over time.

The first three European CLOs to price since the financial crisis were structured to ease investor worries, and their successively tighter spreads suggest that’s happening, boding well for future deals as they adapt to the current market’s demands.

A collective sigh must have fallen across weathered European collateralized loan obligation (CLO) managers when news emerged about H.J. Heinz Co.’s decision to forgo selling a European portion of its $12 billion LBO financing in mid-March.

Private student loan backed securities issued pre-crisis are past their most perilous years but structural flaws could still prove hazardous for investors.

Until recently private student loans were the laggards in the recovery of the U.S. securitization market, but demand is picking up.

As new deal volume in the private label RMBS market continues to ramp up, so do questions from investors about how these deals will evolve over time.

There’s been plenty of talk about using securitization to finance solar energy, but to date, no deals; the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laborator wants to jumpstart the process.

U.S. CLO Managers March to Europe

Deal economics of European CLOs are improving, trumping regulatory challenges and a shortage of collateral

Citibank priced its $1.75 billion credit card securitization, Citibank Credit Card Issuance Trust, Class 2013-A1, the second credit card deal to price this week.