Veteran commercial mortgage backed securities analyst Darrell Wheeler joined Standard & Poor’s this week as head of research for global structured finance, confirmed a person at the company today.

Peter Danna joins the company as director of business development for asset backed securities ratings.

Concerns about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac guaranteeing low down payment mortgages are overblown.

Wells Fargo has named Kyle Hranicky chief of its corporate banking group

Synchrony Bank, formerly GE Capital Retail Bank, is prepping its second credit card securitization of the year.

A J.P. Morgan securitization report this week says that Fitch Ratings’ increased subordination requirements in CMBS deals prompted issuers to drop the rating agency from all but the senior portion of deals.

The Iowa Student Loan Liquidity Corp. is marketing $40.69 million revenue bonds.

Asset backed securities that priced in the two weeks ended May 1, 2015.

Issuance of ABS, MBS and CMBS for the year through May 1,2015.

Monroe Capital has priced its first securitization of broadly syndicated corporate loans.

Marketplace lender Social Finance has expanded its education loans to parents of students in 49 states and the District of Columbia.

Used car retailer CarMax is marketing is second auto loan securitization of the year.