Santander Consumer USA Holdings plans to increase lending to consumers with solid credit scores after being squeezed by higher losses on its subprime auto book.

The Prime Collateralised Securities Initiative is aiming to boost synthetic securitization, which offer an alternative way for European banks to free up capital for more lending.

Wells Fargo Goes It Alone on 1st Risk Retention Compliant CMBS

Middle market lender Madison Capital Funding is preparing its first collateralized obligation of the year.

Volkswagen’s U.K. finance arm is marketing £750 million ($884 million) of bonds backed by auto leases.

Commercial mortgage loan originations in 2017 are expected to increase 3% over last year to a record high, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The industry’s reliance on these yardsticks to estimate the riskiness of a pool of borrowers is mathematically flawed.

In it’s continuing effort to shield taxpayers from potential defaults, Freddie Mac is now offering investors exposure to the credit risk of multifamily mortgages that are awaiting securitization.

Kensington Mortgage Co. (KMC) is pooling approximately £343.7 million (US$428.7) in prime-borrower first-lien and “buy-to-let” investor mortgages in the second UK mortgage-backed securitization being marketed this month.

GSO/Blackstone Debt Funds Management earned the top spot in deal-count of U.S. CLO transactions by registering 28 deals totaling $13.3 billion in 2016, according to a tally of manager activity in the collateralized loan obligation market by Moody’s Investors Service.