Issuance volume of asset-backed securities for the year through March 20, 2015.

Asset-backed securities that priced in the two weeks ended March 20.

Barclays priced $1.3 billion of securities backed by two large loan CMBS deals secured by mall properties, according to a Standard & Poor report.

Ford Motor Credit priced its $1.6 billion prime auto loan ABS, Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2015-A, according to a regulatory filing.

JG Wentworth is marketing $213 million of bonds backed by structured settlement payments, according to a presale report from DBRS.

Ally Financial is marketing $986.60 million of auto-lease backed securities, adding to what has been a busy first quarter for this sector.

GMAC U.K., General Motors U.K. based company, plans to add Personal Contract Purchase leases to its latest E-CARAT transaction.

Wells Fargo’s $711 million CMBS conduit features a heavy concentration of loans with single tenant exposure.

Just as European authorities look set to take a friendlier approach to certain kinds of securitization, providing some much-needed relief, the industry faces a new challenge: negative interest rates.

GM Financial, the captive auto financing arm of General Motors, priced $1 billion of auto lease receivables this week, bringing auto lease securitization volumes for the year to just over $6.4 billion.

Freddie Mac plans to sell another $725 million of notes transferring the credit risk on residential mortgages that it insures.