Santander Consumer USA plans to bring to market $846 million of asset-backed securities backed by a pool of fixed-rate new and used automobile, light-truck and utility vehicle loans.

Sabal Financial Group expanded its commercial mortgage-backed securities business with the launch of a transaction support services division called Sabal Commercial Advisors.

Markit, the global financial information services company, has launched a new service for the pricing of collateralized loan obligation tranches.

Dan Perl, chairman & CEO of Citadel Servicing said that he sees a market for the securitization of private label, non-prime mortgage loans.

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Standard & Poor’s has named Jim Wiemken as senior managing director and global head of structured finance, according to an internal memo.

The primary market for CMBS deals remained relatively quiet on Thursday with only two new deals marketed this week.

Deals issued pre-crisis are past their most perilous years but structural flaws could still prove hazardous for investors.

Until recently private student loans were the laggards in the recovery of the U.S. securitization market, but demand is picking up.

As new deal volume in the private label RMBS market continues to ramp up, so do questions from investors about how these deals will evolve over time.

The first three European CLOs to price since the financial crisis were structured to ease investor worries, and their successively tighter spreads suggest that’s happening, boding well for future deals as they adapt to the current market’s demands.