There’s been plenty of talk about using securitization to finance solar energy, but to date, no deals; the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laborator wants to jumpstart the process.

U.S. CLO Managers March to Europe

Deal economics of European CLOs are improving, trumping regulatory challenges and a shortage of collateral

Citibank priced its $1.75 billion credit card securitization, Citibank Credit Card Issuance Trust, Class 2013-A1, the second credit card deal to price this week.

The Structured Finance Industry Group's membership keeps growing.

Thanks to the expansion of the Bank of England’s Funding for Lending Scheme by one year, to January 2015, there will likely be few securitization deals placed with investors in the foreseeable future

Given the distress that European structured finance deals are under, they have performed astonishingly well according to one key metric: defaults.

Standard & Poor's Sounds Alarm on Covenant-Lite Loans in CLOs

Westgate Resorts plans to issue $140 million of notes backed by timeshare mortgage financings via its Westgate Funding 2013-1 securitization deal.

The Higher Education Loan Authority of the State of Missouri plans to issue a $970.8 million Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) –backed student loan securitization deal.

The Trepp CMBS delinquency rate posted a 47 basis point drop in April, its lowest reading in more than two years.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to move ahead with the development of a common securitization platform.