Consumer ABS

Sallie Mae said that it will continue to issue FFELP ABS to finance the redemption of all legacy FFELP loans previously sold into the U.S. Department of Education’s Straight –A conduit program.

Hertz priced an upsized, $950 million offering of three-year and five-year notes backed by its fleet of rental cars.

Macquarie Bank priced $500 million of Aussia auto lease-backed notes targeting U.S. investors; a floating-rate tranche maturing in May 2015 pays Libor plus 27 basis points.

Prime auto ABS pricing spreads show solid demand for high quality ABS sectors.

Ally Financial priced its first non-prime public transaction structured with a novel revolving structure, to good investor appetite.

Fitch Ratings projected on Thursday that structured finance issuance in Europe would, in the aggregate, stay flat in 2013 from 2012.

General Motors priced an upsized, $1 billion subprime auto loan securitization

Ally Financial Inc. upsized its subprime auto deal, Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-1, to $1.56 billion from $940 million.

The Term Asset-backed securities Lending Facility has turned a profit of $173 million, so far.