John Hintze

NYL Investors’ $400 million Flatiron CLO 20 incorporates increasingly common provisions giving it more flexibility in today’s uncertain credit environment.

PPM Loan Management Company's new CLO has an expected triple-A spread of 142 basis points.

Barings LLC is back in the market with the $319 million Barings CLO 2020-II deal that provides higher credit enhancement on the top rated tranches than the Barings CLO 2020-I, its first CLO this year that was completed in September.

Completing in September its first floorplan ABS deal for 2020, GM Financial is approaching the market again, this time with a $924.9 million deal that carries an identical structure and credit enhancement to the earlier transaction.

Credit Acceptance Corp. is pursuing its third senior-subordinate auto-loan securitization of 2020, providing investors with bonds backed by risky collateral as well as a long and successful track record issuing asset-backed securities.

Credit portfolio manager’s outlook on corporate borrower defaults and spreads on their loans, while still gloomy, has improved somewhat as the pandemic continues.

For investors seeking rich yields, mortgage-insurance provider Radian Guaranty is approaching the market with a $488 million transaction that is offering greater credit enhancement than a similarly structured deal earlier this year, pre-pandemic.

As the ongoing pandemic raises major questions over the fate of commercial real estate, the Benchmark 2020-B20 Mortgage Trust deal approaching the market has as a significantly higher concentration of office properties.

The performance of U.S. credit card securitizations is continuing to improve, according to Fitch Ratings, but the asset class's ongoing health will depend significantly on what emerges from political squabbles in Washington, D.C.

IPFS Corp. is approaching the asset-backed securities market with its seventh deal in 2020 backed by a revolving pool of insurance premium finance loans, an asset class posing relatively little risk to investors, at least for now.

Navient Solutions has approached the market with $780 million securitization of Federal Family Education Loan Program loans, following a similarly structured transaction completed in early August. In a report published Oct. 12, Moody's Investors Service highlighted the elevated risk to those assets during the current pandemic.

Spreads and investor demand make conditions ripe for a surge in CLO deals before the election, but a strain on loan supply may complicate the picture.

Global trade is sinking while the pandemic interrupts international port and shipping activity. But securities backed by marine-cargo container fleets and leases have bombarded the securitization market this summer.

Tesla last week priced its latest auto-lease securitization at signficantly reduced spreads from its last deal—reflecting strong investor demand for TALF-backed securities and an improving outlook for the world's largest battery-electric vehicle (BEV) manufacturer.

In its sixth securitization of 2020, IPFS Corp. is pursuing a $400 million deal backed by a revolving pool of insurance-premium finance loans and secured by the right to receive the unearned premium amounts from the loans.

More than 2,500 Fitch-rated structured finance transactions face significant challenges transitioning from Libor to an alternative floating-rate benchmark, but the ratings agency doesn’t foresee that resulting in potential ratings downgrades until 2022.

The $156.5 million Amax Mortgage Loan Trust 2020-B is collateralized by 764 seasoned “re-performing” loans (RPLs), which are mortgages that were previously delinquent, as long as 90 days, but have recently been performing well.

Verizon is launching its 12th securitization of device payment-plan agreements, marking its second asset-backed issuance this year.

Student loan servicing giants, Sallie Mae Bank and its offshoot Navient Solutions, are each approaching the market with deals securitizing students loans, providing investors with exposure to different types of loans and deal risks.

After receiving a third-party stamp of approval, Fannie Mae announced July 27 completing the latest two issuances of a single-family green mortgage backed security as part of an ongoing program that started in April and expands its long-time multi-family green MBS program.