In Santander Consumer USA's third subprime shelf offering of 2018, new cars represent 55.8% of the collateral. In previous deals dating to 2013 new-car concentrations did not exceed 40.9%.

The borrowers in the pool of collateral have lower FICO scores, and the size of a prefunding account has risen to 25% of the initial balance from 16% for Marriott's prior deal, completed in August 2017.

Five classes of notes will be issued in the transaction, BBVA Consumer Auto 2018-1, which is backed by a pool of well-seasoned loans on new and used cars that will revolve for an initial period of 1.5 years.

CLO securities pay out interest pegged to the three-month London interbank offered rate, but loans used as collateral are increasingly switching to one-month Libor and the spread between the two benchmarks has widened significantly.

The $278.3 million RCMF 2018-FL2 also has unusually heavy exposure to apartment buildings, offices and industrial properties that are either vacant or have low occupancy levels, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

The average FICO for the pool of lease obligors is at a peak level for GM Financial's shelf, but Fitch expects higher losses on resale values on a pool more heavily dependent on longer-term leases and luxury models.

The agency will have to rework its strategy for amending its payday lending rule after a federal court rebuffed efforts to stop the rule from going into effect.

QSuper Board, an Australian pension fund, is tapping the commercial mortgage bond market to help finance a portion of a 52-story office building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

The $71.7 billion-asset manager is replacing notes from a 2015-vintage CLO that had been squeezed on asset quality prior to its October 2017 post-reinvestment period.

With the question of a federal charter still looming, Treasury's last report on changes to the financial regulatory system will focus on nonbanks and new tech startups.

The agency proposed new minimum capital requirements for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that would only go into effect if the government ends its conservatorships.

The Dallas-based money manager has launched a UCITS that invests in both U.S. and European loans, investment-grade CLO securities, and obligations and other kinds of structured products.