A bill to strengthen consumer protections for Property Assessed Clean Energy financing programs in California was approved by the Senate Monday and is headed to the governor’s desk for his signature.

The 19-story Class A office building boasts a LEED Gold certification and a concentrated tenant roster, led by Saatchi & Saatchi and Penguin Random House.

The rental car giant is more dependent than ever on asset-backed financing after being downgraded in May, making high yield bond issuance prohibitively expensive.

The transaction, from Together Financial Services, is backed by nearly 4,500 first- and second-lien non-conforming loans, including those for "buy-to-let" and self-employed borrowers.

For the first time, the marketplace lender is using its own balance sheet: It's contributing 27.66% of the collateral. The rest comes from three third-party investors.

Morningstar thinks that $38.94 billion of CMBS loans that it rates in Florida could be impacted; it sees another $19.38 billion of exposure in Georgia, $5.16 billion in Alabama, and $5.03 billion in South Carolina.

The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act was created after 9/11 to serve as a crucial federal backstop for commercial real estate insurers, but an analysis of alternatives to fund the program reveals the continued challenges of measuring and predicting terror risk.

Hurricane Irma could potentially affect more private-label mortgage securities collateral than any other recent storm.

Stonemont Financial Group, an Atlanta-based real-estate-management firm, is tapping the commercial mortgage bond market to help finance its acquisition of a portfolio of 100 office buildings, industrial and retail properties.

The federal savings institution is pooling more than 33,000 well-seasoned auto loans to its armed services-linked membership base.

New issuance of U.S. collateralized loan obligations reached $11.9 billion across 24 deals, taking year-to-date volume past $72.3 billion, according to Thomson Reuters LPC. The eight-month total is higher than the total issuance for all of 2016.

The $426.2 million COLT 2017-2 is backed entirely by loans originated by Caliber, an affiliate of private equity firm Lone Star Funds. There are no loans originated by Sterling Bank & Trust, which accounted for 22% of the collateral for the prior deal.