First Investors Financial Services Group last year pruned its dealer base and tightened customer borrowing standards, but the longtime subprime auto finance company has not stopped tapping the securitization market for financing. It’s latest deal is for $198 million.

IPFS Corp. is preparing a $300 million securitization of loans used to finance insurance premiums, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

CLO manager CreekSource has priced its latest offering at wider-than-average spreads as it targets primarily first-lien senior secured loans with better-than-average speculative-grade ratings quality.

Issuance volume of asset-backed securities including mortgage backeds and commercial mortgage backeds for the year through Feb. 5. 2016.

Underwriting league tables for asset-backed securities for the year through Feb. 5, 2015.

Two equipment-lease securitizations were launched Thursday: a $850 million deal from CNH Industrial and a $454 million deal from GreatAmerica Financial Services Corp.

Bankers are defending the industry's aggressive push into commercial real estate despite regulators' warnings about the growing risk — and the potential for losses — in that sector.

Ford Motor Credit is offering another $833 million of notes backed by dealership inventory financing from its master trust.

BMW Financial Services has joined in the cavalcade of captive auto finance companies in the securitization market early this year a $1 billion offering of notes backed by U.S. auto leases.

Enterprise is readying $649 million of securities backed by leases on fleets of cars and light trucks.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should have direct oversight of auto dealers instead of being forced to go through indirect auto dealers to make changes to the market, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., suggested Wednesday.