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Net-loss and payment-rate performance for the bank's World Financial Network master trust platform has fallen short of private-label card issuer peers the last two years.

Tetragon Credit Income Partners is considering a move outside its niche CLO equity investment strategy in expanding its portfolio management team.

The Boston-based firm has refinanced two existing deals within the last 10 months, but hasn't printed a new deal since October 2015, well before U.S. risk retention rules took effect.

The deal will be managed through its BDC, which formed a joint venture last December to fund PE-sponsored firms with unitranche corporate loans.

The captive-finance lenders will be the leading issuers of U.S. auto lease-backed securitizations in 2017 at the close of their latest deals launched this week.

The deal, which Fitch did not name in its report, appears to be VCO CLO 2018-1. The agency said the transaction might not even merit a single-A rating, given the high single-sector concentration.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management is not disclosing why it is retiring the $1B Palm Lane Credit Opportunities Fund; the fund was previously being considered for a spinoff.

TCI Capital assigned two CLO deals totaling $1 billion that it was managing for Columbia Management Investment Advisers, after Columbia resigned its subadvisory role.

Moody’s expects losses on Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2018-4 to reach 25% of the original balance over the life of the deal, down from 26% for its prior deal.

About 8.5% of loans backing the $256.2 million transaction were reassigned from a 2015 deal; this boosted the weighted average seasoning to seven months from one month for ACA's prior deal.

More than 88% of contracts in the $800 million transaction have terms of less than 40 months; Fitch points to the increased the use of subvention at Toyota dealerships.

Brass No. 7 is Accord's ninth overall securitization of prime mortgages for owner-occupied homes and the second to feature a revolving period.

Collateralized loan obligations denominated in pounds sterling were once a tough sell; two recent deals from Barclays and PGIM indicate that this is changing.

The credit arm of the $24 billion asset H.I.G. Capital is marketing a $458.1 million BSL CLO, its first deal since April 2015.

Only 9.6% of €1.08 billion of collateral meets the criteria for responsible lending and borrowing set by the National Institute for Family Finance in the Netherlands, down from 22.9% for the prior deal.

The $408.4M Anchorage Capital CLO 2018-10 adds to the $5.2B-asset manager's 2018 tally of three re-issues and a refinancing — not to mention a debut European CLO.

The percentage of CCC "buckets" in CLOs increased in the second quarter and they are now at levels similar to 2016, when managers struggled with concentrations of troubled energy-sector assets.

The first two transactions were initiated in March, just a few days before skin-in-the-game rules were lifted for this asset class; this time, the CLO manager is not exactly sticking its neck out.

S&P says extended term loans and "liberal" collection policies are pushing losses and amortization toward the tail end of some lenders' securitizations — making cross-comparing performance between lenders and an issuer's own outstanding vintage deals more difficult.

DFG Investment Advisers, led by former Goldman and HVB Group veterans, will exceed $4.2B in CLO assets under management with the latest deal.