American Bancorp. in St. Paul, Minn., went into liquidation last week when managers of collateralized debt obligation backed by its trust preferred securities pressed for involuntary bankruptcy to collect debt and unpaid interest.

CNH Industrial Capital America has priced its latest equipment lease securitization at similar spreads to its previous deal, completed in February.

Jim Ahern has been named Moody’s Investors Service's head of structured finance in the Americas.

Americredit Financial Services priced the short-term, one-year, fixed rate class A notes issued fromAmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2014-2 priced at 28 basis points over the eurodollar synthetic forward curve.

The $405 million tranche of ‘AAA’-rated class A notes issued from the CSMC Trust 2014-ICE trust priced at 80 basis points over one-month Libor.

Americredit is coming down the pike with another securitization of subprime auto loans, according to a pre-sale from Moody’s Investor Service.

Volkswagen has obtained ratings from both Fitch Ratings and Moody’s Investors Service on its $800 million renminbi ($128 million) securitization of Chinese auto loans.

Kramer Van Kirk Credit Strategies, an investment firm based in Chicago, is in the market with its sixth collateralized loan obligation.

Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs are marketing $865 million of commercial mortgage bonds backed exclusively by hotels.

The Rhode Island Student Loan Authority plans to issue $93 million of bonds backed by federal family education loan program loans.

View the deals that priced in the two weeks ended May 30.

An improved loan pool in the issuer’s 2014-2 auto loan securitization led to lower credit enhancement on the notes.