The €350 million Providus CLO II is backed exclusively by loans to mid-market firms that meet the private equity firm's sustainability criteria; at closing, 90% of the collateral has been identified.

As part of the agreement with HSN, Synchrony has also extended its partnerships with HSN affiliates QVC and the e-commerce site Zulily.

The wireless carrier has issued a total of $6.7 billion to year-to-date via four transactions; that's up from $2.65 via two deals in 2017 and a single, $1 billion deal in 2016.

The online lender will roll out the business early next year with a focus on loans of less than $100,000.

The Property Assessed Clean Energy sector is getting a boost from the expansion of improvements eligible to be financed via tax assessments, including fire resiliency and total building renovations, according to DBRS.

Dividing the transaction into two tranches allowed the GSE to tailor the transaction to the risk appetite of participants, lowering the cost of reinsurance.

The LA-based manager is pricing the replacement AAA notes of Oaktree EIF III Series 1 inside recent market averages through a limited, brief noncall extension.

RBC Capital Markets hired Paul Sheldon, founder of the advisory firm S L Capital Strategies, as a managing director in the municipal finance student loan group.

Stuart Morrissy, a leveraged finance specialist, joins the law firm from the New York office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy.

Live Oak Bancshares became an SBA juggernaut by making loans, selling them and making more. With economic conditions changing, it is retaining more credits.

That's unprecedented; previous series from Ford Motor Credit's master trust financing dealer inventories limited non-amortizing schedules to three to seven years.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has proposed barring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from using credit scores developed by VantageScore over concern about conflicts of interest with the joint venture of Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.