The bonds will be backed by a first-lien mortgage on Willowbrook Mall, a 1.52-million-square-foot shopping center in Houston.

The chicken-menu specialty chain will use the proceeds to refinance existing debt.

The company provides a secondary market outlet for its retail and wholesale lending corporate sibling as well as for small balance commercial loans.

The newer planes are being delivered to financially strong carriers such as JetBlue Airways, Delta Air Lines and India’s popular IndiGo low-cost airline.

The deal is the second securitized transaction floated under recent California state legislation authorizing a flurry of utility securitizations.

Deals, trends and research in structured finance and asset-backed securities for the week of May 14-20

Trinity’s railcar collateral qualifies as an eligible green asset, since freight transportation serves as a lower carbon-emissions alternative to big-rig trucking for land-based goods transport.

For the first time since the pandemic began, the share of borrowers who are 30 days or more late on their payment is below 5%, Black Knight found.

Carvana Auto Receivables Trust 2021-N2 is the used-car retailer's ninth securitization since 2019, and the third to include a pool exclusively made of non-prime loans.

During a House Financial Services Committee hearing, Democrats largely praised the policy decisions of acting regulators named by the Biden administration and knocked their predecessors. But Republicans warned that moves to reverse Trump-era policies would leave financial institutions without a clear road map.

Average loan size also continues to increase, as demand remains high and costs in homebuilding materials rise this year.

Only 0.9% of mortgage borrowers are currently at least 90 days delinquent. That figure could rise as high as 3.8% once pandemic-related deferrals lapse — still well below the 6% mark reached after the Great Recession, according to research by the New York Fed.