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Novation Settlement Solutions plans to issue $40 million in securities backed by a portfolio of receivables related to settlements of legal claims, according to DBRS.

Barclays Bank upsized and priced a $625 million credit card securitization, according to a person familiar with the deal.

Car loan debt continues to rise as more and more Americans are trading in old cars for new ones, according to a report released Monday from TransUnion.

Westlake Services priced the upsized $320 million Automobile Receivables-Backed Notes Series 2014- — its first deal of 2014, according to a person familiar with the deal.

Freddie Mac has long struggled to compete with larger rival Fannie Mae because the former's mortgage-backed securities trade at a discount to the latter's. Their new regulator may change that.

Standard & Poor’s does not want to take the blame for Europe's stagnant securitization market.

Newtek Business Services, a regular securitizer of small business loans, has added two senior executives, Susan Streich and Harold Gartner, to expand the compliance and factoring services that it provides to clients.

The Mortgage Bankers Association has cut its 2014 loan origination forecast to $1.05 trillion because home purchase loan application volume is well behind where it was this time last year.

The Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority Connecticut’s green bank, has completed the first securitization of a $30 million portfolio of commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy liens.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has cut its2014 forecast for issuance of commercial mortgage bonds in light of the unexpectedly slow start to the year.