Moody’s Investors Service expects commercial mortgage-backed securities in Europe to perform poorly over the next two years.

JP Morgan Chase plans to launch a $650 million credit card ABS transaction this week.

TAL International Group plans to issue a $271.75 million container lease ABS deal, kicking off what is expected to be a busy year for the esoteric asset class.

Ally Bank’s upsized $1 billion dealer floorplan ABS priced on Tuesday wide of levels seen in the recent Ford Credit Floorplan Master Owner Trust deal.

Citigroup is arranging two collateralized loan obligations totaling nearly $1 billion; one for Columbia Management and one for the Carlyle Group.

Fitch Ratings warns that competition among subprime auto lenders could result in a loosening of underwriting standards, leading to weaker collateral in 2013 deals than in prior years.

Invesco is planning a $400 million collateralized loan obligation, according to a presale report issued by Moody’s Investors Service.

The CMBS primary pipeline added another $1.48 billion of commercial mortgage-backed bonds with the UBS Securities/Barclays Capital conduit, UBS-BB 2013 C-5.

Comenity Bank formerly World Financial Network Bank, plans to issue a $480 million securitization from its credit card master note trust.

The South Carolina Student Loan Corporation has a $324 million deal in the works, according to a pre-sale from Fitch Ratings.

With competition for auto lending heating up, Chrysler Group wants to cut in half the time it takes to approve financing for the purchase of a vehicle, according to Peter Grady, vice president of dealer network development and fleet financing operations.

CLOs that are tracked in an index compiled by Standard & Poor’s show that fewer ‘CCC’-rated loans in their pools translate into better performance for transactions.