The company increased the concentration of sub-550 Beacon score borrowers to more than 13%, and cut the share of prime 700-plus loans by more than two-thirds from its prior deal.

A mortgage on the marquee Caesars Palace Las Vegas is being used as collateral for $1.6 billion of mortgage bonds; proceeds will be used to repay existing indebtedness.

Deal volume of $95 billion through 10 months is at a pace that would make 2017 the second-busiest year for post-crisis CLO issuance; AAA spreads, meanwhile, have reached three-year tights.

The San Francisco-based lender still posted losses in its portfolio, although those declined considerably from the year-ago period.

Residents' low incomes usually disqualify them for standard student loan refinancings, but SoFi and other lenders describe these borrowers as strong credits with high earnings potential who could offset some of the risks lurking in student loan pools.

The loans are part of a €1.8 billion bad-loan purchase that Mars Capital, an Oaktree "vulture fund," made of high-risk mortgages from Irish banking authorities in 2014.

The $300.3 million deal will include both senior and senior-surbordinate notes secured by both floating-rate and fixed-rate loans.

Amid the rise of online lending earlier this decade, banks were derided as being too slow to adapt. But over time it's become clear that banks hold key advantages over lending startups.

Similar to a transaction completed in December, the loans in the $127 million RCO 2917-INV1 were originated by Lima One Capital and Visio Financial.

The deal, DLL Securitization Trust 2017-A, is unusual in that it is backed almost entirely by agricultural equipment; other lessors such as CNH and John Deere securitize a mix of agricultural and construction equipment.

James Bennison, head of alternative capital markets at Arch Capital Group, says that a new insurance-linked security helps with regulatory capital requirements and provides information that can help the company to better manage risk.

GS Bank will take the name of Goldman's nascent consumer-lending business, Marcus.