Consumer ABS

Ally Financial, seeking new sources of customers, will finance used cars sold through Beepi, an 18- month-old website that lets people buy vehicles with a few clicks and no test drive.

With regulators nipping at their heels, auto lenders had good reason this year to retrench. But that’s not what they did.

Don’t expect much of an impact on structured finance next year from the Fed rate hike and its decision to raise rates gradually.

Specialty lender Regional Finance Co. has obtained a $75 million amortizing loan from Wells Fargo Bank that will be secured by automobile receivables.

Most investors in a recent survey said they want to ditch the pricing benchmark now used for many kinds of securitization.

SolarCity is marketing what may be the first securitization of loans to finance the purchase and installation of solar panels by consumers.

California regulators on Monday identified 14 companies that the state is targeting as part of its recently announced inquiry into the marketplace lending industry.

California officials have opened a broad inquiry into the marketplace lending business, seeking data from industry participants that will be used to assess the effectiveness of the state's current regulatory regime.

Marketplace lenders started 2015 as darlings of the securitization market, but their white hot growth started to attract calls for more regulation as the year unfolded.

Underwriting standards will keep slipping for auto loans over the next year but deals performance won't suffer, according to Moody's Investors Service 2016 Auto ABS Outlook.