DBRS said that the automated underwriting used by non-bank specialty finance companies has led to a pick-up in small, unsecured business lending. These lenders are now considering ABS issuance.

The new issue auto ABS pipeline this week includes a new deal from Toyoto Motor Credit Corporation.

BlackRock Financial Management has re-priced two classes of a $366 million collateralized loan obligation, according to Standard & Poor’s.

The latest generation of European CLOs may expose investors to a risk that didn’t exist in most pre-crisis deals: fluctuations in foreign exchange rates.

The percentage of securitized timeshare loans with late payments declined again in the first quarter, according to Fitch Ratings.

The financial industry advocacy group named former New Hampshire governor and U.S. senator Judd A. Gregg as its next chief executive officer.

Travellers completed a $300 million issue of three-year catastrophe bonds with a 4% coupon; the notes are rated 'BB' by Standard & Poor's.

Loan extensions create risks for investors in older European collateralized loan obligations.

World Omni Financial Corp. plans to issue a $903.8 million from its World Omni Auto Receivables Trust program.

Law firm Mayer Brown hired Lawrence Berkovich, a former counsel at Dechert, as a partner in the firm's banking and finance practice.

Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Jefferies priced the $1.1 billion CMBS deal called GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2013-GCJ12.

CNH Capital America plans to issue its second equipment lease ABS deal of this year, the $725 million CNH Equipment Trust 2013-B.