The U.S. collateralized loan obligation market is off to a slower-than-expected start, and this is causing market participants to lower their expectations for 2015 as a whole.

Weak commodity prices are creeping up as a concern in agricultural equipment lease securitizations.

Two more subprime auto lenders, Westlake Financial Services and Flagship Credit Acceptance, are making their first trips of the year to the securitization market.

Morgan Stanley is securitizing the senior portion of a $300 million loan secured by the Graybar Building located on 420 Lexington Ave in New York City.

The Blackstone Group and TPG Special Situations Partners-owned U.K. specialty lender Kensington Group is marketing a £360 million ($554 million) securitization of nonconforming U.K. mortgages.

Oportun, a nonbank lender that targets Latino consumers, has completed its third securitization

World Omni Financial priced $706 million of prime auto loan securities at levels slightly wide of Toyota Motor Credit’s deal earlier this week.

A senior regulatory official on Wednesday continued the alarm bell over the brisk growth in auto lending, suggesting that some lending terms could be setting up banks for trouble

FirstKey's second RMBS offers the bell and whistles of the plain vanilla variety but its representation, warranty and enforcement framework falls short when compared to other post crisis jumbo RMBS.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch promoted two more executives from its collateralized loan obligation unit to top roles in global structured finance.

Wells Fargo pooled $1 billion of commercial mortgage loans to be issued via the WFCM 2015-C27 conduit, according to a Kroll Bond Rating Agency presale report.