Redwood Trust is confident that its latest offering of RMBS, Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-12, will get priced despite the more challenging environment.

Volkswagen priced its upsized $1.5 billion retail auto loans dubbed VALET 2013-2 today.

Sallie Mae upsized its SLM Student Loan Trust 2013-6 to $995.6 million from $746.8 million; and priced the deal today.

The deal, AmeriCredit Auto Receivables Trust 2013-5 was originally sized at $900 million. DBRS and Moody’s Investors Service assigned ratings to the notes issued under the transaction.

So far this year, securitization of loans to small and medium-sized companies totals $4.9 billion, according to Wells Fargo.

Three U.S. container lease securitizations that are currently marketing will add $671 million to the total volumes for the asset class, which is already ahead of the pace set last year, according to Standard & Poor’s.

Barclays announced today that commercial mortgage backed securities issued and backed by US agencies will become eligible for its US aggregrate and global aggregate indicies as of June 30, 2014.

Fitch Ratings assigned a preliminary ‘AAA’ ratings to the class A notes of Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency’s Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) backed securitization and put the notes on ratings watch negative.

American Express is prepping a new credit card securitization worth $595 million, according to a presale from Fitch Ratings.

Price talk has been established on a $997.9 million of commercial mortgage bonds being offered by Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Jefferies

Fitch Ratings said that in September credit card charge-offs for securitized accounts dropped to lows only seen once before in the 23-year history of the ratings agency’s indices.