With the best performance in U.S. structured finance behind us, credit vigilance is key in 2016, according to Fitch Ratings.

The number of borrowers behind on private student loan payments lat the end of the third quarter declined from the year-earlier period, though it was up slightly over the previous six months, according to MeasureOne.

California Republic Bancorp has issued a recently-closed securitization of prime auto loans, the company said in a release.

Property Assessed Clean Energy loans have been available in Florida since 2010, but lending, as well as securitization of these loans, has lagged far behind California largely due to a series of lawsuits. A ruling by the Florida Supreme Court in October could change that.

Fitch Ratings has placed another $30 billion of bonds backed by guaranteed student loans under review for potential downgrades.

Solar panel loans may be riskier than related assets such as leases and power purchase agreements, but that doesn’t mean that solar loan securitization will necessarily be riskier.

Issuance volume for asset-backed, commercial mortgage-backed and residential mortgage-backed securities for the year through December 28, 2015.

Freddie Mac will begin issuing single-family mortgage-backed securities sometime next year via the new common securitization platform, the Federal Housing Finance Agency said Thursday.

Ally Financial, seeking new sources of customers, will finance used cars sold through Beepi, an 18- month-old website that lets people buy vehicles with a few clicks and no test drive.

Sen. Bob Corker championed a provision he added to the budget bill that would temporarily prevent the Treasury Department from recapitalizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and discussed other banking priorities in a sitdown interview with American Banker.

With regulators nipping at their heels, auto lenders had good reason this year to retrench. But that’s not what they did.

Fannie Mae’s final risk sharing transaction of the year was with reinsurers.