The €309 million Orbita Funding 2017-1 plc follows a 2016 transaction by the venerable British bank.

The prime consumer loans backing the $330M CLUB Credit Trust 2017-P2 transaction include a greater percentage of higher-FICO borrowers.

For now, performance continues to improve, but the percentage of borrowers of traditional private student loans seeking temporary payment relief rose to 2.5% from 2.0% as a result of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

The deal will relaunch with a weighted average spread (4.22%) and excess spread (2.86%) well above the three-month industry average for issued U.S. CLOs.

The British banking giant has been testing its new online lending platform with a handful of its U.S. customers and plans to roll it out in full force next year. It's all part of a broader effort to expand its U.S. consumer business beyond credit cards.

Collateral for the deal, which is structured as a master trust, can reach €30B of loans originated by the bank's building-savings affiliate, its retail operations and its private-bank unit.

The senior tranche of Angel Oak 2017-3 benefits from 46.25% credit enhancement, up significantly from 37.75% for the sponsor’s July transaction, but in line with its April deal.

The move convinced Kroll Bond Rating Agency to upgrade $95 million of securities, some of which had been under review for a possible downgrade for over a year; Kroll affirmed the ratings of another $63 million of bonds.

The deal could put downward pressure on market lease rates and renewals in wireless tower ABS portfolios serviced by Crown Castle, American Tower, and SBA Communications.

The Spanish bank's German retail lending unit is securitizing a fifth pool of mostly unsecured personal loans from an €83.5 billion portfolio.

The vast majority of default servicing professionals are investing in "significant" REO property improvements to increase resale values in a hot housing market.

The measure assigns the CFPB the task of developing ability-to-pay standards for financing repaid through local tax assessments; it has the support of both the PACE industry as well as mortgage bankers and Realtors.