Online consumer lender Avant continues to boost quality of its underwriting, and this is helping to reduce its funding costs.

Renovate America launches $268 million of bonds backed by Property Clean Energy Assessements; Calibur Home Loans returns with non-prime RMBS, and three more collateralized loan obligations refinance.

A $26 million settlement by Santander Consumer is shining a light on the hard-to-measure problem of auto dealer fraud, while also raising questions about the adequacy of lenders' efforts to combat bad behavior

Caliber Home Loans’ next non-prime mortgage securitization is nearly twice as large as its previous deal, completed in December.

Charles Citro joined the Morningstar Credit Ratings this week as managing director for commercial mortgage-backed securities ratings and analytics

Issuance volume of asset-backed securities for the year through April 21, 2017.

Student loans are showing signs of growing too fast, perhaps the only market flashing a warning even as the economic recovery grows older, Citigroup Chief Financial Officer John Gerspach said

Dell and Ascentium launched a pair of equipment lease securitizations; NextGear readies notes backed by auto dealer inventory financing; Consumer Portfolio Services closes on auto ABS.

Ocwen Financial and its subsidiaries faced a slew of accusations from federal and state regulators on Thursday, which raised questions about whether the firm could survive.

Managers of European collateralized loan obligations are under-reporting their exposure to loans that lack certain investor protections, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

The House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing on a GOP Dodd-Frank overhaul plan next Wednesday as Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, hopes to have a panel vote on the bill by the end of the month.

Bayview Asset Management is bundling bonds that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac use to transfer the credit risk of mortgages into collateral for new bonds.