Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray has managed to keep his job for more than two weeks into a Trump administration, despite repeated calls by House Republicans for him to be fired.

Ally Financial is marketing $664.45 million in notes secured by the receivables on inventory credit lines it underwrites for dealers primarily franchised with General Motors and Chrysler USA.

New collateralized loan obligation volume through Feb. 10 has already topped $3.2 billion with at least nine new deals in the pipeline, the LSTA reported. That adds to $4.8 billion in refinancing activity for the month, after two more refis were priced on Thursday.

Barclays launched last week’s only offering of commercial mortgage bonds, the $855.7 million BBCMS Mortgage Trust 2017-C1.

Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corp. has received issuer and purchase approval from Ginnie Mae, allowing it to complete a previously announced deal with Freedom Mortgage.

Issuance volume of asset-backed securities for the year through February 10, 2017.

Purported revisions to House Republicans' Dodd-Frank rollback bill raised immediate questions about the GOP's strategy, since the provisions — which were more extreme than when the bill was unveiled last year — immediately sparked Democratic opposition.

Mariner Finance is prepping a first-time $225 million asset-backed notes issuance supported by nearly 90,000 subprime and nonprime personal loans. Over 60% of the loans in the 'BBB+'-rated deal are unsecured and nonprime.

Subprime auto lenders Credit Acceptance Corp. and First Investors are marketing a combined $575 million of asset-backeds.

Invictus Capital Partners, a nonprime mortgage lender based in Washington, D.C., is making its debut in the securitization market.

Freddie Mac is preparing its second offering of the year of Structured Agency Credit Notes, which offload some of the risk of default on mortgages that it insures.