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Two privately placed static CLOs and the newly priced Palmer Square CLO 2018-1 add up to more than $1.5 billion in new CLO assets under management for the Kansas City-metro area manager.

By trimming the capital structures to three tranches of notes from four, the sponsor boosted excess collateral, providing a buffer against additional losses; J.C. Penney cards account for 20% of the pool.

The €413 million transaction will issue exchangeable notes for the five senior tranches, allowing regulated U.S. banks the opportunity to invest, even though the portfolio includes bonds.

The transaction fills out the original available $7 billion capacity of the Sprint Spectrum trust program, which markets notes backed by the sale-leaseback receivables from Sprint's portfolio of spectrum licenses.

Triton Container Finance VI is the second marine-cargo shipping container ABS to launch this year, and will be Triton's third since June 2017.

Credit enhancement on the senior tranches of notes to be issued is unchanged from the prior six deals, at 24.38%; monthly payment rates by dealers continues to trend upward at 40.5%.

The performance of outstanding transactions issued via the Capital Auto Receivables Trust platform is weakening, so rating agencies are demanding additional investor protections.

Discover's master trust is issuing $800 million in its first deal since October; Scotiabank has priced US$600 million in card receivables in its first cardholder account securitization in two years.

Moody's thinks that the risk of early lease terminations is "marginal," since only 0.5% of the vehicles in the collateral pool are old enough to be impacted by bans in place in several European cities.

Allstate Investment Management's latest collateralized loan portfolio includes a five-year-plus reinvestment period, and some added leeway on credit metrics and performance tests.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority is marketing its fifth transaction financing local residential solar-panel installations; all of the notes carry an A rating from Kroll.

Citigroup and Goldman Sachs are securitizing a $405 million first mortgage taken out to help finance the private equity-led acquisition of the WoodSpring Suites low-priced extended-stay hotel chain.

DriveTime's improving loss performance in recent securitizations allowed it to relax the enhancement levels on its first securitization of the year.

The transaction is the second this year involving Santander's Chrysler Capital preferred-lender unit; in January Santander sold bonds on its first-ever deal backed by Fiat Chrysler leases.

GSO/Blackstone's Cook Park CLO is the firm's first new-issue transaction since November; the senior, triple-A-rated tranche pays just 92 basis points over Libor.

Avoca CLO V was issued only the second default rating of a subordinate global CLO in the last four years, the result of an unpaid subordinate tranche in an early deal liquidation by manager KKR.

Despite riskier terms, rising delinquencies and falling used car values, investors keep buying bonds backed by prime and subprime auto loans and leases.

Credit support on the senior tranche of the $800 million transaction is 19.25%, up 250 basis points on the comparable tranche of the sponsor's previous deal to offset the impact of falling used car prices.

Acting commissioner Dana Wade said the agency is "vigilantly" watching whether it needs to take action on PACE assessments placed on mortgages after they are endorsed by the agency.

The DC Circuirt Court's ruling that CLO managers are exempt from skin in the game rules disappointed some investors, who are willing to pay a premium for deals in which their interests are aligned.