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.

CMBS special servicers had a busy April, liquidating $1.62 billion in loans, according to a Tuesday Trepp report.

Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) issued a $400 million catastrophe bond Bosphorus 1 Re Ltd. Series 2013-1.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority named Jonathan Sokobin as its chief economist and senior vice president.

Dealer floorplan ABS continues to gain traction as issuance volumes are boosted by rising vehicle sales and the refinancing of maturing transactions.