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Sallie's first student-loan securitization of the year comes a week after SLM Corp. announced plans to sell more loans from its portfolio to fund a share buyback program.

Fitch says Carlyle's next $408.9 million aircraft lease ABS has more than 60% of the asset value tied to airlines with credit profiles equivalent to lower junk-rated corporates.

Clarion Partners will tap the CMBS market to help finance a multiyear renovation of older Courtyard by Marriott-branded hotel properties it co-owns through a joint venture.

Eagle Re 2020-1 is backed by the performance of a reference pool of 156,065 loans with an outstanding balance of $40 billion.

The loan participation is part of a debt refinancing package that paves the way for expanding the Parkmerced mega-development.

FAT Brands is proposing a whole-business securitization to ABS investors that will help its reduce its net leverage and boost its debt-service coverage ratio.

The Justice Department had issued subpoenas in 2014 and 2015 to GLS and other subprime lenders regarding underwriting criteria for lending as well as representations and warranties for loans being securitized, according to Kroll.

Nearly $1.2 trillion in speculative-grade debt is now set to mature between 2020-2024, including $750 billion in leveraged loans.

Treasure Island Hotel & Casino is the latest Las Vegas casino tapping the commercial-mortgage securitization market as it winds up a multi-year, exhaustive renovation program.

Natixis will be marketing bonds as well loan-specific certificates tied to a $160 million first-mortgage taken secured by an Amazon headquarters building in Seattle, and a $92.5 million loan backed by a newly built addition to NYC's sprawling Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center campus.

The newly acquired industrial portfolio of transportation centers in major markets adds to Blackstone's global holdings of logistics properties in major transit hubs.

The $430.2 million PSMC 2020-1 transaction is a pool of 602 large-sized loans with an average loan balance of $715,978, all of which meet CFPB's QM standards.

Impact investing has long centered on environmental and social purpose, but governance could make huge strides as an ESG consideration in 2020.

Mercedes-Benz, Nissan and Ford will market up to $3.86 billion in new prime auto-lease securitizations, adding to a pipeline that opened up with Hyundai's deal last week.

The $243 million transaction – Small Business Lending Trust 2020-A – is backed by a static pool of 1,930 loans originated and serviced by an affiliate of the U.K.-based lender.

Asset managers appear mixed on whether credit conditions on spreads and corporate defaults will worsen in 2020 – or remain at today’s benign levels. But few expect any near-term improvement.

While Citi and Chase sit on the sidelines, Bank of Nova Scotia is sponsoring its fifth card securitization since 2018.

Fannie Mae is sponsoring a $1.03B CRT transaction, while Caliber Homes Loans, New Residential and Onslow Bay fill the non-QM pipeline

Macro factors point to a solid year in the securitization market but wild cards abound, many of them political.

CarMax Auto Superstores is securitizing a “slightly improved” pool of prime auto loans in its new $1.2 billion loan-backed securitization, according to S&P Global Ratings.