Provisional ratings were provided Friday to a pair of asset-backed securitizations to Apollo Aviation Group and work-vehicle fleet leasing firm Element Financial Corp.

Underwriting league tables for asset-backed securities for the year through March 18, 2016.

Issuance volume of asset-backed securities for the year through March 18, 2016.

Avis Rent a Car is seeking to issue up to $300 million in securitized notes, in one of its smallest securitizations of its rental car leasing contracts in years through the Avis Budget Rental Car Funding (AESOP) master trust.

The increasingly troubled sector often draws comparisons to the subprime mortgage market of the 2000s. But the more apt analogue is the auto-lending sector of the 1990s.

No surprise, Moody’s Investors Service has not been asked to rate Citigroup’s latest securitization of unsecured consumer loans originated by Prosper Marketplace.

Cerberus Capital Management is marketing its first securitization of re-performing mortgages of the year.

Citigroup and Goldman Sachs are marketing nearly $2 billion of bonds backed by commercial mortgages used to facilitate Blackstone Real Estate Partners VIII’s acquisition of BioMed Realty Trust.

Octagon Investment Partners’ new CLO is its first leveraged loan collateralization since September, as well as its debut portfolio being acquired last November by global insurance asset firm Conning.

Despite months of concerns over the credit standing for troubled Valeant Pharmaceuticals, the specialty pharmaceutical company remains the single-largest obligor in collateralized loan obligation holdings.

While the $1.9 billion of bonds are not guaranteed by the government, most of the underlying loans could have been sold to Fannie and Freddie, and the transaction accomplishes the same thing as the GSEs' risk-transfer deals.