Spruce Finance, a provider of consumer financing for residential solar and home efficiency improvements in the U.S., has hired Darren Thompson as chief financial officer.

Online lender Social Finance, or SoFi, found a ready market for its inaugural rated offering of bonds backed by unsecured consumer loans.

The Shops at Crystals, a Las Vegas luxury shopping mecca of gilded names like Louis Vuitton and Prada, is securitizing a portion of its new commercial mortgage loan in a $300 million trust notes issuance.

Navient’s next student loan securitization is backed entirely by federally guaranteed loans to borrowers who were once in arrears but are now making timely payments.

Bond rating agency DBRS has assigned provisional ratings to an asset-backed vehicle comprised of €1.2 billion of consumer personal and mortgage loans originated by Spanish bank Caixabank.

A mix of esoteric lease receivables from real estate, equipment and auto transport assets is being securitized through a €1.03 billion notes offering from Alba Leasing, an Italian corporate credit finance firm.

Duke Energy Florida's $1.3 billion utility fee securitization sets an important precedent.

Hunting and fishing equipment retail chain Cabela’s is planning a $425 million credit-card receivables securitization, as it also explores a sale of the company and/or its credit-card operations.

Speculative-grade corporate liquidity seems to have improved over May and June, but Moody's warned the lowering of the stress index is due more to bankruptcy technicals, not "fundamental improvement."

Oportun Financial Corp., formerly Progreso Financiero Holdings, is offering $102.9 million in Class A notes and $22.07 million in Class B notes. The deal is rated by Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Weakening credit quality and falling prices on used-car values will cause some deterioration in existing auto asset-backed portfolios this summer, predicts Fitch Ratings.

The economics of actively managing a pool of leveraged loans for the benefit of several different classes of investors is not good. So some CLO managers are putting their deals on autopilot.