Zopa, an online lender based in the U.K., is marketing £138 million of bonds backed by unsecured consumer loans, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

Some big investors are keeping their powder dry in the event that an exogenous event roils the financial markets; in the meantime, it’s a challenge to put money to work in assets that produce decent returns without taking on excessive risk.

While the U.S. CLO market sputters behind its 2015 pace, European collateralized loan obligation deals this year are leading the 2015 clip by a nose. But don’t expect that comparably healthy advantage to translate into a rush of Euro-denominated deals by year’s end.

Two recent court decisions that curtailed controversial debt collection and payday lending policies could wind up impacting leading marketplace lenders, no matter their distance from such abusive and predatory practices.

The expanding investor base for Connecticut Avenue Securities and Structured Agency Credit Risk notes is creating a kind of virtuous circle: as trading volume increases, banks are dedicating traders to the asset class

For investors who were intrigued by the launch of Verizon’s first-ever handset securitization offering in July, an executive for one of the deal’s underwriters deal had a message: Stay tuned.

Early fears that Wall Street landlords might have trouble refinancing their holdings of large portfolios of single family rental homes have proven unfounded.

The subprime auto lender Santander Consumer Holdings USA has made two key leadership moves as it faces ongoing accounting problems.

Unfavorable court decisions, heightened regulatory attention and a thumb’s down from famed “Big Short” personality Steven Eisman are making no dent in the enthusiasm for marketplace lending (MPL) securitization.

Moody's Investors Service has concluded its ratings review on 31 securitizations of federally guaranteed student loans sponsored by Navient Solutions to account for the slower rate of repayment of the collateral.

Steve Eisman, the money manager who foresaw, and profited from, the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, hadn’t attended a securitization conference since 2007. But Information Management Network, the organizer of an annual confab in Miami, clearly recognizes a good draw. It invited him to give the keynote speech Sunday.

The pace of mortgage modifications picked up in the second quarter as a streamlined version of the U.S. government’s Home Affordable Mortgage Program (HAMP) started to produce results.