LoanHero, an online lender specializing in consumer loans at the cash register, announced that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding.

JP Morgan is marketing $585 million of bonds backed by a single loan secured by a portfolio of 30 hotel properties, according to Fitch Ratings.

Discover Bank and Royal Bank of Canada are marketing the first two offerings of the year of notes backed by credit card receivables.

Deutsche Bank and Cantor Fitzgerald plan to issue $1 billion of securities backed by commercial mortgage loans via COMM Series 2016-CCRE28.

Overlapping missions and jurisdictions are fueling competition between the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission, according to former officials at both agencies.

Online lender Enova International said Friday it has entered into a $175 million asset-backed financing facility for its NetCredit installment loan portfolio.

Ally Bank is marketing $1 billion of prime auto loan securities in its first securitization of 2016.

Santander Consumer USA is marketing $752.2 million of securities backed by subprime auto loans via Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2016-A

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said it agreed to settle a U.S. probe into its handling of mortgage-backed securities for about $5.1 billion, cutting fourth-quarter profit by about $1.5 billion and closing out a year of record legal and litigation costs.

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

An international regulatory body said this week that they are looking at setting new, enhanced leverage ratio requirements for the largest global banks, a move that echoes the higher standards in the U.S.' supplemental leverage ratio and demonstrates why going beyond international accords can influence the rest of the world.

United Auto Credit and Consumer Portfolio Services are planning to issue a combined total of $501 million in bond backed by subprime auto loans.