Consumer ABS

First Investors Auto Owner Trust 2016-2 is a $230 million asset-backed pooling of more than 11,000 new- and used-auto loans – a transaction exceeding the pool size and loan population of recent securitizations pieced together by First Investors.

Ford Motor Co. is securitizing its second round of German auto loans this year in a €541.7 million pool of both private and commercial borrower receivables tied to significant balloon payments.

The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency is making its first trip to the securitization market in over a year.

Mercedes-Benz Financial Services USA is preparing its first captive-finance loan receivables securitization of the year, in a $1.24 billion transaction that could be upsized to $1.5 billion.

Amazon.com and Wells Fargo on Wednesday ended their partnership to offer college students a discount on private student loans, quickly abandoning what the bank lauded just six weeks ago as a "tremendous opportunity."

Ford Motor promoted veteran executive Joy Falotico to lead the Ford Credit lending unit, making her the first woman to run the operation that provides financing to auto buyers and dealers worldwide.

World Omni is braving the August hear to bring $941.49 million of notes backed by auto loans to market.

Nat Hoopes, executive director of a trade group that represents the chief executives of Wall Street banks, is making the jump to fintech.

The weaker collateral pools in recent-vintage subprime auto loan pools are leading to rising delinquencies and portfolio losses, with July's annualized net losses climbing 17% month-over-month, and 28% year-over-year.

NorthStar Education Finance, a Delaware non-profit, is marketing $90 million of bonds backed by private loans to medical and law students.