B2R Finance, the lender backed by the Blackstone Group, is returning to the securitization market after undergoing a shift in strategy and turnover in senior management.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expected to unveil a proposal on July 28 that would regulate debt collection practices.

Consumer Portfolio Services is planning a third securitization of its subprime auto loan portfolio in 2016, amidst slightly improved underwriting conditions but growing levels of delinquencies on receivables.

John Deere is preparing its second securitizatifon of equipment loans of 2016, according to Fitch Ratings.

Issuance volume of asset-backed securities for the year through July 15, 2016.

Underwriting league tables for asset-backed securities for the year through July 15, 2016.

Portfolio managers are expecting deteriorating credit conditions in spreads and defaults in North America and Europe this summer, as the Brexit contagion spreads around the globe. In particular, 68% of managers worldwide expect to see growing defaults in the European investment-grade space this summer.

Ford Motor Credit is marketing $777 million of bonds backed by lines of credit that it extends to auto dealerships, according to Standard & Poor’s.

Higher conforming loan limits in high-cost areas create a risk-sharing dilemma, due to limits on how many can be bundled into plain-vanilla mortgage bonds. Here's Freddie Mac's solution.

Fitch Ratings and Moody’s Investors Service have assigned preliminary ratings to a €700 million, 18-month revolving securitization of unsecured consumer auto loans issued and serviced by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A.

Americans' longstanding relationship to automobiles — owning them, driving them — is set for a dramatic shift, and so is auto finance.