Ford Motor Credit’s Canadian subsidiary is shopping $538 million of notes backed by auto loans, its first retail deal of the year.

Marine container securitizations set an all-time record in 2012 with issuance totaling $3.6billion in volume.

Sallie Mae said that it will continue to issue FFELP ABS to finance the redemption of all legacy FFELP loans previously sold into the U.S. Department of Education’s Straight –A conduit program.

Hertz priced an upsized, $950 million offering of three-year and five-year notes backed by its fleet of rental cars.

Morgan Stanley is marketing a $519 million CLO for LCM Asset Management.

Macquarie Bank priced $500 million of Aussia auto lease-backed notes targeting U.S. investors; a floating-rate tranche maturing in May 2015 pays Libor plus 27 basis points.

Goldman Sachs and Citigroup are next in line with the second conduit CMBS deal of the week, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange prospectus filed today.

Deutsche Bank are marketing its $1.49 billion conduit CMBS deal, COMM 2013-LC6 Mortgage Trust’s, according to a Standard & Poor’s presale report published today.

Covered bond investors are taking a more flexible view of the ratings and other characteristics of these investments, according to a survey conducted last month by Fitch Ratings. Yet they are discriminating about which jurisdictions they want exposure to.

Prime auto ABS pricing spreads show solid demand for high quality ABS sectors.

Arbor Realty Trust has priced a $260 million deal backed by bridge loans, its second commercial real estate collateralized loan obligation.