Winston & Strawn said this week that veteran financial services attorney Keith Andruschak has joined the firm’s corporate practice as a partner in New York.

Some of the biggest investors in mortgage bonds are asking the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau for additional clarification about their liability for purchases of loans that fail to comply with a new disclosure rule.

The ambiguity over whether regulators favor risk sensitivity or simplicity in setting capital requirements does not help risk management efforts.

3i Debt Management priced a €400 million European collateralized loan obligation, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

Volkswagen AG’s latest auto lease securitization in Europe appears to show the automaker is making progress to repair nearly 11 million vehicles – and maintain its past solid quality securitization performance – in the wake of its diesel-engine emissions testing scandal that broke last September.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday ordered a San Diego student debt relief company to shut its operations, cancel all contracts and cease participating in the industry.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. and Digital Asset Holdings are targeting the repurchase agreement market as the latest use case for a blockchain solution.

A growing number of ABS professionals expect credit quality to decline and underwriting standards to tighten this year, according to a survey released Tuesday by Capital One Bank.

The Dolphin Master Issuer Series 2016-1 is a Class A-only notes structure, which has been assigned a ‘AAA’ structured rating by Standard & Poor’s.The notes, for which ABN has no new assets in the collateral pool, are paying off the principal on three outstanding Dolphin issues.

Subprime consumer lender Avant currently rejects many of its personal loan applicants. It hopes to qualify more borrowers by offering cash to those who are willing to put their cars up as collateral.

Buyers of broadly syndicated corporate loans currently have an incentive to drag their feet closing trades; they will soon pay a hefty price if they don’t do their part. The reform should help lenders get assets off their books faster.