The trend of putting ever-smaller pieces of the same commercial mortgages into multiple transactions means investors can end up with more exposure to a single property than they realize.

This feature, which has already been incorporated into some newer transactions, gives the sponsor more flexibility to manage its overall portfolio; Moody's investors Service thinks it is credit neutral.

Electric vehicles are starting to show up in pools of collateral for auto leases, but it's harder to predict what they will be worth when they are repossessed or come off lease, says Moody's Investors Service.

Some were sold at discounted prices, while others were shut down by their acquirers or quietly ceased doing business.

Many raised large amounts of capital to put to work in the equity, or riskiest slices of their deals, allowing them to resume issuing new deals just as new loan issuance was taking off.

Both in dollar and transaction volume, credit card use is growing at a faster pace than debit use. Much of the growth is coming from affluent consumers who value rewards like 2% cash back on purchases.

A second bank, M&G Prudential, had joined the deal agent, ING Capital, boosting capacity to $80 million from $40 million.

Exposure to PetSmart's now triple-C rated loan will strain the distressed debt limits of 24 collateralized loan obligations, while two other deals face potential interest-diversion test failures.

Banking regulatory agencies Thursday announced that they would raise the aggregate loan commitment threshold for syndicated loans to be included in the Shared National Credit program from $20 million to $100 million.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be allowed to build capital buffers to protect against losses under an agreement between the Treasury Department and the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced on Thursday.

The Kurban Group, a Lebanese travel conglomerate, recently closed on a rental fleet securitization that, despite its small size, represents some notable "firsts."

Only 2.6% of speculative-grade rated firms with public financials carry Moody's weakest liquidity rating, a drastic reduction since March 2016, helped by a recovery in the oil and gas sector.