Consumer ABS

Exeter Finance has hired Freddie Mac executive Paige H. Wisdom to be its chief financial officer.

Sallie Mae is making more student loans that it can keep on its balance sheet

Carrefour Banque, the captive consumer finance arm of the French retailer Carrefour S.A., Europe's largest retailer, plans to sell €400 million ($454 million) of securities backed by credit card receivables.

Ford Motor Co.’s European captive finance company, FCE Bank is planning a euro denominated auto loan securitization.

It’s not clear how much capital European insurers will need to hold against their investments in U.S. securitizations or whether they can even invest in some of these deals at all.