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U.K. authorities are years away from phasing out the London Interbank Offered Rate, but Conning's Paul Norris is urging the industry to pick up the pace on alternative benchmarks now that it's a matter of "when," not "if."

RREEF America, the real estate investment unit of Deutsche Asset Management, is securitizing an unusual mix of speculative-grade project finance and corporate in a debut $431.3 million collateralized debt obligation.

The rental car giant is more dependent than ever on asset-backed financing after being downgraded in May, making high yield bond issuance prohibitively expensive.

The transaction, from Together Financial Services, is backed by nearly 4,500 first- and second-lien non-conforming loans, including those for "buy-to-let" and self-employed borrowers.

The federal savings institution is pooling more than 33,000 well-seasoned auto loans to its armed services-linked membership base.

New issuance of U.S. collateralized loan obligations reached $11.9 billion across 24 deals, taking year-to-date volume past $72.3 billion, according to Thomson Reuters LPC. The eight-month total is higher than the total issuance for all of 2016.

The credit quality of the collateral is lower, by several metrics, than that of Exeter's prior deal; however, S&P Global expects cumulative net losses to be in the same range, from 20.1%-21.1%.

Ford Motor Credit, GM Financial and Fifth Third Bancorp are marketing a combined $3.4 billion in prime auto loan and lease asset-backed securities, according to presale reports published Thursday.

The proceeds will be used to repay three existing bonds series, as well as pay down commercial paper and credit line debt of the real estate investment trust, formerly known as Land Securities.

The loans, which average 15-year terms, were originated by Vistana and Hyatt Vacation Ownership. Fitch Ratings notes a slight decline in borrower credit quality, and expects a slightly higher default rate.

The 4,443 single-family rental homes securing Starwood Waypoint Homes 2017-1 have an average age of 30 years, older than any previous transaction by the sponsor, but are bringing in more than $1,700 apiece in monthly rent.

The parent company of Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins will use $733 million of proceeds to repay debt issued in 2015; the remainder will be used for general corporate purposes, including funding a dividend to shareholders.

S&P says exclusion of the value of "personal contract purchase" balloon payments from Santander's Motor 2017-2 transaction will benefit the deal through excess spread and recoveries from contract defaults.

CVC Cordatus Loan Fund IX is CVC's ninth overall Euro-denominated CLO, and only the second that will price since early June, according to Thomson Reuters LPC.

The $418m OSCAR US 2017-2 transaction is the 7th securitization of prime auto loans originated by Orient Corp. (or Orico) in Japan and packaged into U.S.-dollar denominated securities.

The transaction would be the third under Freddie's Seasoned Loan Structured Transaction (SLST) program.

The new Motel 6/Studio 6 deal is collateralized by the fee income of a refi commercial loan, as well as cash-flow pledges from company-owned and franchised properties.

Race Point IX CLO, a 2015 vintage deal, follows four other refinancings that Bain has completed for its Race Point, Avery Point and former Cavalry issuance platforms; Bain has also refinanced a Euro CLO.

Damages have typically not been a "disruptive problem" with hurricanes because of commercial properties' insurance, Trepp reports, but expiring leases of major tenants and the energy industry fallout have already had an impact on Houston-area office buildings.

The size of the two classes of notes on Volkswagen Financial Services' Compartment Driver UK SK deal is to be determined; they will be backed by receivables on 24,238 prime retail customer lessors.