Glen Fest

First-day panelists at the Structured Finance Association's annual ABS industry conference in Las Vegas speculate on securitization's potential as a new financing mechanism for oil and gas operators.

Vague criteria and potential "greenwashing" complicate sustainable investments in securitizations, new research suggests.

SoFi Professional Loan Program 2020-B Trust is a $1.06 billion asset-backed offering of bonds secured by a pool of loans made to advanced-degree graduates of medical, dental or legal universities, or MBA recipients.

Over 67% of the loan balances in Sabal Capital Partners' commercial mortgage MBS deal were for apartment buildings financed through the Irvine, Calif.-based firm.

A proposed change could resurrect bond buckets, but loan industry observers also point to "covered fund" changes shielding loans from a potentially disruptive court decision.

The notes in Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust 2020-555 are backed by a beneficial interest in the trust’s $350 million portion of the 119-month fixed-rate commercial loan. The loan is secured by a 52-story New York luxury apartment building in Manhattan’s Midtown West submarket.

American Honda Finance's 78th term securitization has a potential upsizing to $1.62 billion - a similar option the captive-finance lender has taken in recent transactions.

Five MBS pools of predominantly non-QM mortgages have been launched into the market by originators and loan aggregators, according to ratings agency presale reports published since Monday.

CBAM Partners co-founder Don Young retells the firm's fast rise into one of the larger CLO managers, and discusses the state of the market.

Total Engine Asset Management, or TEAM, is sponsoring an ABS totaling $$256.98 million backed by leases and asset values of 30 engines on lease (or contracted to lease) to 13 airlines in 11 countries.

The bank priced $1 billion in new fixed-rate Class A notes from its Chase Issuance Trust platform.

The Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2020-REV1 transaction is Ford’s 12th under its platform that permits revolving assets during the pre-amortization period of the transaction.

According to presale reports on Flagship’s $355 million auto-loan securitization, the subprime auto lender is removing the 2% collateral pool limit on loans over six years (72 months) that can be added during a three-month prefunding period for Flagship Auto Credit Trust 2020-1.

The lease deal – Santander’s sixth ABS of Chrysler Capital leases since 2017 – has a higher proportion of leases with original terms longer than 36 months (44.5%) than prior deals through the platform.

Fitch Ratings has moved three of its managing directors into new roles leading the U.S. RMBS and structured credit teams, including a new global role in developing enhanced analytics across multiple asset classes.

The 38.5% concentration of 'A' borrowers is the highest of any prior 11 LendingClub securitizations, according to Moody's.

The 34 narrowbody and widebody aircraft in the portfolio are older-vintage planes with a weighted average age of 13.8 years, but all but one of the planes remains an in-production model.

Sunnova Energy Corp. is marketing $313.5 million in bonds secured by receivables of a pool of residential solar-panel leases and power-purchase agreements issued in 20 states and three U.S. territories.

The data management and analytics firm has tapped Craig Phillips, a former top aide to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, as a senior adviser for the five-year-old firm’s business and product development activities in the mortgage loan space.

Toyota Motor Credit Co. is sponsoring a $1.25 billion loan-backed transaction (potentially upsized to $1.75 billion), while regional Toyota captive finance lender World Omni Finance Corp. is sponsoring an auto-lease deal at either $766.5 million or $962.9 million.