A federal judge approved Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s $272 million settlement with investors who claimed the bank misled them about the safety of billions of dollars worth of residential mortgage-backed securities.

Online lender Earnest is marketing its second ever offering of bonds backed by loans used to refinance student debt.

The potentially wide-ranging effects of an appeals court decision in Midland Funding v. Madden could deal a serious blow to preemption under the National Bank Act.

JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank are marketing $893 million of commercial mortgage bonds with unusually heavy exposure to office buildings and hotels, according to Fitch Ratings.

Issuance volume of asset-backed securities for the year through April 29, 2016.

Underwriting league tables for asset-backed securities for the year through April 26, 2016.

A joint venture involving the captive finance arm of French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroën and Santander Consumer UK is issuing its first UK auto financing securitization since gaining regulatory approval for operations there.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will propose changes in late July to its mortgage disclosure rule to provide "greater certainty and clarity" to the mortgage industry.

STACR Debt Notes Series 2016-DNA2 is a $916 million bonds offering featuring a reference pool of primarily single-family mortgages with an unpaid principal balance of $30 billion.

Taurus 2016-2 Deu DAC has a five-class notes structure, including a triple-A provisionally rated €140 million tranche at the top of the capital stack.

Santander Consumer USA Holding’s second subprime auto loan securitization of 2016 provides a few clues as to why the company announced Wednesday it would be pulling back its originations in the problem-credit space.