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The first prime auto-loan securitizations for Ally Bank and captive-finance lenders for Toyota and Ford total $3.5-$4B, according to rating agency presale reports.

Proceeds will repay a tranche of variable-rate notes issued in 2016, as well as for general corporate purposes, including paying a capital dividend to shareholders.

Proceeds from the first jet-lease securitization of 2018 will be used to acquire 24 widebody and narrowbody planes contracted to 16 airlines in 14 countries.

The Carlyle Group, Blackstone/GSO and Investcorp have reset or refinanced a trio of 2014 and 2015 vintage, euro-denominated deals.

The $720.1 million SoFi Professional Loan Program 2018-A is only slightly smaller than its final deal of 2017, which was upsized in response to strong demand.

The $401.2 million COLT 2018-1 is the eighth overall securitization of non-qualified jumbo mortgages issued by the Lone Star Funds affiliate.

Initial expectations for cumulative net losses on the $1.15 billion transaction are higher than those of the sponsor's three prior deals, according to credit rating agency reports.

BMW Financial Services is launching its first U.S. auto-loan securitization in two years, while Daimler AG's U.S. captive finance arm is proposing a $1.3 billion to $2 billion pooling of luxury auto leases.

Improved underwriting allowed the lender to secure AAA ratings despite offering the lowest credit enhancement on senior SDART notes in three years.

The lender's first deal of the year is sized at $750 million, in line with its two prior offerings, but the amount of collateral has been significantly increased, to over $1 billion.

Obvion, a €31.1B-asset lender with a 3.2% market share in the Netherlands, is placing more seasoned loans into its latest five-year revolving pool of prime loans.

The $165 billion of collateralized loan obligations that were refinanced in 2017 as a whole account for more than one-third of all U.S. CLO assets under management, according to Thomson Reuters LPC.

Tralee CLO IV is a $409.2 million portfolio that immediately more than doubles the assets under management for Par-Four Investment Management.

The Dallas consumer lender plans to boost originations again after retooling and taking stock, even as other lenders scale back in the face of rising defaults and delinquencies.

The first issuance on its Finsbury Square platform marks the specialty mortgage originator's seventh securitization since 2010.

The first subprime auto ABS deal for 2018 is the 30th overall for Consumer Portfolio Services, with caters to deep subprime borrower pools.

The loans used as collateral were originated by a consortium of lenders in The Netherlands: ABN AMRO, ABN AMRO Hypotheken Groep, MoneYou B.V., Oosteroever Hypotheken B.V. and Quion 9 B.V.

Carlyle has raised an additional $800 million for "opportunistic" debt and equity investments of third-party CLOs, in a planned expansion of its $19.4B in structured credit business assets under management.

What helped to grow the market in 2017, even as foot traffic declined and same-store sales growth slowed across the quick serve dining industry, were structural innovations that widened the investor base.

Facing increasing concerns about consumer protections, the Property Assessed Clean Energy industry is embracing the kinds of underwriting and disclosure standards more commonly associated with residential mortgages.