The shakeout in the sporting goods industry continued to impact commercial mortgage bonds, as Sports Chalet is closing stores that are tenants in properties backing 11 CMBS loans.

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, R-Ala., is seeking input from the Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Budget Office on the future of policies dealing with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

BMW AG is securitizing its fourth pool of auto loans to German consumers and business customers in a €800 million transaction through its Bavarian Sky S.A. platform.

Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Merrill Lynch are using a regional mall in Oklahoma City to dress up another highly leveraged offering of commercial mortgage bonds.

Napier Park Global Capital, the hedge fund spun out of Citigroup, has found a new way to raise money to invest in railcars.

Onex Credit Partners is launching its first CLO of 2016, and 11th overall, following up a 2015 when the private equity group issued three collateralized loan obligations of mostly similar sizes.

As financial regulators consider how to fit the burgeoning marketplace lending industry into the existing regulatory structure, banks and consumer advocacy groups are beginning to question how community reinvestment and anti-redlining statutes might be applied, if at all.

A $388.5 million securitization is being planned for a single commercial loan to the Palisades Center Mall in New York, a metro super-regional mall emerging from two years of renovations and major retail tenant poachings by a rival development.

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

Golden Credit Card Trust Series 2016-3 and 2016-4 will each include three classes of notes with the size of the issuance to be determined. The floating-rate Class A notes have been given an early ‘AAA’ rating by Fitch for each series, and will be offered in a rule 144A sale in the United States.

Invesco Senior Secured Management has priced a new $406.25 million CLO with a high ratio of first-lien secured loans already identified for the portfolio.