Consumer ABS

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.

The Obama Administration’s efforts to ease the debt burdens of college students have had unintended consequences for investors in federally guaranteed student loans.

Rated bonds backed by online marketplace loans might include subprime consumer loans for the first time next year. This is one of predictions that analysts at Moody’s Investors Service made in a recent report on the sector.

Navient said Monday that investors in six student loan securitizations it services had voted to extend the maturity dates of the bonds.

Citigroup Latest Securitization of Prosper Loans Rated by both Moody's Invetors Service and Fitch Ratings.

California Republic Bank is marketing its fourth auto loan securitization this year.