As credit cards defaults and delinquencies continue to wane, banks and retailers are growing increasingly more confident in extending credit to consumers.

Total year-to-date non-agency prime jumbo RMBS issuance is up to $12.7 billion from $3.5 billion in 2013. Issuance for the asset class could grow as large as $35 billion in 2014.

Moody’s Investors Service said today that the current trend of weakening auto lending standards will continue into 2014 but credit quality will remain stable for auto loan securitizations.

Citigroup priced its $867 million CMBS conduit that is backed by 65 fixed-rate commercial mortgage loans on Friday.

Colony American Homes said it plans to issue an REO-to-Rental securitization early in 2014.

Here's a puzzle of modern finance: during a period when borrowing costs are at rock-bottom levels and tens of millions of borrowers have refinanced their mortgages, it remains impossible for many gainfully employed Americans to refinance their student loan debt.

Hilton Worldwide priced the $2.625 billion fixed-rate component with a term of five-years from its CMBS deal today, according to a person familiar with the deal.

HLSS Holdings is coming out with a $300 million securitization of servicer advances, according to a presale report by Standard & Poor's.

Barclays expects issuance of collateralized loan obligations in 2014 to be similar to this year’s total, in the range of $75 billion to $80 billion.

Ford and Ally Financial priced deals this week that bring the pace of primary Auto ABS issuance to $60 billion year to date compared to $67 billion issued in 2012, according to Standard & Poor’s.

Diamond Resorts International has closed on a $225 million offering of bonds backed by vacation timeshare loans.

Credit Suisse squeezed in a $290 million residential mortgage-backed securities transaction before the market breaks for the Thanksgiving holiday.