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From refinancing the wall of maturing CMBS to getting CLO manager skin the game, these articles held your interest the longest.

Standard & Poor's downgrade of Volkswagen will have no immediate impact on its three U.S. auto loan and one auto lease asset-backed securities transactions it rates originated by VW Credit.

The number of borrowers behind on private student loan payments lat the end of the third quarter declined from the year-earlier period, though it was up slightly over the previous six months, according to MeasureOne.

California Republic Bancorp has issued a recently-closed securitization of prime auto loans, the company said in a release.

Fitch Ratings has placed another $30 billion of bonds backed by guaranteed student loans under review for potential downgrades.

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.