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Unlike the $15 billion-asset bank’s legacy mortgage bonds, the new offering is backed by loans to borrowers with strong credit and significant equity in their homes.

Loans with terms between 73 months and 75 months comprise 15.6% of the collateral for DRIVE Auto Receivables Trust 2017-2, up from 0.5% in 2017-1; yet Moody's Investors Service is holding its loss expectations stable.

The collateral has the highest concentration of longer-term loans of any Toyota deal to date: 42.6%; that's up 3.7 percentage point from the sponsor's previous deal.

House Financial Services Committee leaders and two top real estate trade groups have cut a deal on a bill to reform the National Flood Insurance Program.

Underwriting league tables for asset-backed securities for the year through July 20, 2017.

Issuance volume of asset-backed securities for the year through July 20, 2017.

Unlike some other large loans obtained by affiliates of the private equity firm, this one is not being carved up into bits; rather, the entire $1.4 billion mortgage is securitized in a single transaction.

Fitch Ratings expects net losses to reach 1.45% over the life of the deal, down from prior deals, thanks to the introduction of a selection criteria that stipulates a minimum FICO score of 650.

The alliance should help the asset registry and communications platform, accelerate its expansion beyond leveraged loans and structured finance and into more overseas markets.

Structural features, not present in the sponsor's previous securitization, completed in 2012, allowed it to obtain a credit rating for the the senior and subordinate tranches.