Issuance volume of asset-backed securities for the year through May 13, 2016.

Underwriting league tables for asset-backed securities for the year through May 13, 2016.

Nissan and Hyundai each launched approximately $1 billion of bonds backed by auto leases Thursday, according to rating agency reports.

A subsidiary of Goldman Sachs purchased all four pools in Fannie Mae's latest nonperforming loan sale.

The government-sponsored enterprises' risk-sharing deals are being hailed as an innovative approach for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to offload credit exposure to private markets. But their growing popularity is raising questions about how these transactions should be reported in financial statements.

There’s a real downside to extremely low or even negative interest rates. Existing CLOs may not earn enough from their euro-denominated assets to pay the interest on the notes they issue.

Goldman Sachs and Citigroup each launched two new CMBS deals on Wednesday, with Fitch Ratings assigning provisional ratings on both pools that focus heavily on retail properties. Goldman's pool is highlighted by a multifamily investor mortgage secured by a portfolio of San Francisco apartments appraised at $923 million.

Deloitte & Touche recently named two co-leads for the CLO services unit of its securitization practice, Hillel Caplan and Lynda Lazzari.

Prices of loans held by CLOs recovered again in April, giving managers some more breathing room. But funding costs, rising interest rates and credit deterioration remain a challenge.

Darien Rowayton Bank – with a fledging student loan refinancing program for graduates of prestigious medical, business and law schools – is issuing a $176 million securitization of three-classes of fixed- and floating-rate loans.

Despite the deterioration in their CLO holdings, BDCs appear to be maintaining their dividends and appear to be in no particular hurry to unload holdings.