Everest Reinsurance priced a $500 million catastrophe bond Friday off of its Kilimanjaro Re platform.

Highland Capital Management, a Dallas-based investment management firm, hired CLO expert Felicia Smith as managing director. She was previously at Santander Consumer USA

Hawaii’s Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism sold $150 million of “green energy” bonds.

Chase sold an upsized $1.3 billion of three-year bonds backed by credit card receivables via its Chase Issuance Trust, according to a regulatory filing.

Morningstar thinks that there is a way to stop issuers of asset-backed securities from shopping around for the best ratings: compel them to publicly disclose the level of credit enhancement required by each rating agency for each tranche.

JP Morgan expects issuance of commercial mortgage bonds to continue to rise in 2015 to $105 billion, ahead heavy refinancing of existing deals.

Issuance of ABS, MBS and CMBS for the year through November 7, 2014.

Asset-backed deals that priced the two weeks ended November 7, 2014.

Investors in catastrophe bonds are broadening their exposure by taking on multiple perils and increasing the time period during which claims can be included in coverage.

Colony Mortgage Capital plans to finance its next pool of levered loans in a capital markets transaction dubbed Colony 2014-FL2.

AmeriCredit Financial Services, a unit of General Motors, is marketing $1 billion of bonds backed by subprime auto loan receivables, according to Standard & Poor’s.

Cronos Containers increased its latest container lease securitization, CRNN 2014-2, by $50 million and priced the bonds on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the deal