Shipping companies need more units to meet a rise in global trade, and they’re not in a position to add to their own fleets.

The Trump Administration’s anti-regulatory agenda has yet to permeate the Securities and Exchange Commission, which remains opposed to relief for collateralized loan obligations.

Credit card losses are climbing as consumers take on more debt, but so far the performance of bonds backed by credit card receivables is holding up.

Fannie Mae chose three winning bidders for its 10th nonperforming loan sale, which consisted of 3,400 loans with an unpaid principal balance of $581 million.

The deal is the second this year from the Mill City shelf; all told, five issuers have completed 15 deals totaling $8.4 billion; the consistent supply is attracting strong investor interest

This type of lending is in high demand, but most of it is being done on balance sheets by banks and insurers; transactions like this are still relatively rare.

Large banks have scaled back lending as competition has intensified and credit unions and financing arms of car manufacturers are picking up the slack.

The bonds are backed by contract payments on customer cellphones, a new asset class that has proven popular because of its high payment priority and potential for sizable issuance.

On Tuesday, state legislators voted to override Gov. Sam Brownback’s veto of a bill that would raise state income taxes, effectively killing a plan to reduce the budget gap by securitizing tobacco settlement payments.

The director of the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority is trying to put its bond money to work.

Upstart (that's it's name), which was founded by several former Google employees, makes unsecured installment loans to prime and near-prime borrowers.

The $9.8 billion of new collateralized loan obligation issued during the month outstripped the volume of deals being refinanced for the first time this year.