Issuance of asset backed securities for the year through April 17, 2016

General Electric’s exit from most of its lending businesses could be bad news for both its borrowers and the investors who buy these loans and leases via the securitization market.

Ford Motor Credit is marketing its first auto lease securitization of the year, according to a presale report from Standard & Poor’s.

Low-income borrowers are responsible for much of the recent surge in student loan defaults and delinquencies, according to new research by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Marketplace lenders are targeting banks most lucrative credit card customers.

The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency and Sallie Mae are marketing a combined total of $1.3 billion of student loan securities.

Comenity Bank priced an upsized securitization of credit card receivables from its World Financial Network Credit Card Master Note Trust.

Credit Agricole Consumer Finance Nederland plans to securitize €1.07 billion ($1.14 billion) of unsecured, Dutch consumer loans.

Zurich Insurance is markting a transaction called Willow No.2 (Ireland) that repackages subordinate notes previously issued by the Swiss multi-line insurer.

Securitization was bound to take center stage at some point at the LendiUSA 2015 conference, a gathering of players in the online lending business.

The catastrophe bond market has hit a new record. Issuance in Q1 totaled $1.7 billion, the most for the first quarter of any year, according to data cobbled together by Aon Benfield.