Avolon plans to partner with Wells Fargo, to form a new joint-venture aircraft leasing business called Avolon Capital Partners Limited.

WE’RE HEARING there’s no easy way to get a high rating on an REO-to-rental securitization. But a strong sponsor helps.

Frequent issuer Credit Suisse Asset Management is planning a $747.5 million CLO; there's also a $474.9 million offering from Western Asset Management, which hasn’t come to market since the financial crisis.

Moody's Investors Service put the ratings of some $20 billion of tobacco settlement revenue bonds under review, saying an agreement over disputed payments could reduce cash flows.

Capital One issued a $750 million credit card asset backed securitization deal.

Wells Fargo and the Royal Bank of Scotland are marketing a $1.44 billion commercial mortgage backed securitization.

Servicers need to pay more attention to changes in home prices and how they relate to delinquency rates.

Extended Stay plans to issue a $2.5 billion single-borrower CMBS deal that is being managed by JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank and Citigroup.

Until the SEC spells out the impact of the Volcker Rule on asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) conduits, the volume of paper outstanding is likely to remain flat or drop slightly, according to a recent report by Standard & Poor’s.

Nelnet is prepping a $438 million student loan securitization, its first of the year.

Egan-Jones Ratings Company and its president Sean Egan will be barred for at least 18 months from rating asset-backed and government securities issuers as a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization.

Kroll Bonds Rating and Fitch Ratings assigned preliminary ratings to Redwood’s second residential mortgage-backed securitization in 2013 called Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-2.