Grain Management, a private equity firm focused on the telecommunications industry, is preparing a $196.5 million securitization of wireless spectrum lease payments.

Santander Consumer Bank plans to issue €700 million ($918 million) of securities backed by Norwegian auto loan receivables under its Bilkreditt trust.

American Airlines plans to issue $956.8 million of aircraft enhanced equipment trust certificates (EETCs), according to deal documents.

Credit unions, some of the most careful auto lenders, may soon have the ability to securitize these loans.

New York’s Niagara County is in the market with $44.74 million of bonds backed by payments received from tobacco companies under the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement

Issuance of European syndicated corporate leveraged loans stands at record $53.7 billion for the year to date, according to Dealogic.

The European Central Bank hired BlackRock Inc, the world’s biggest money manager, to advise on developing a program to buy asset-backed securities.

View issuance for the year to date though August 29 for ABS, RMBS and CMBS from Thomson Reuters.

Asset backed deals that priced in the two weeks ended Aug. 29.

Much of the input the Treasury Department has received on jump-starting private label mortgage securitization endorsed obvious steps; but there were some newer ideas.

Full-year Issuance of commercial mortgage backed securities is on track to outpace that of 2013..