Finance

John Deere is preparing its second securitizatifon of equipment loans of 2016, according to Fitch Ratings.

Portfolio managers are expecting deteriorating credit conditions in spreads and defaults in North America and Europe this summer, as the Brexit contagion spreads around the globe. In particular, 68% of managers worldwide expect to see growing defaults in the European investment-grade space this summer.

Ford Motor Credit is marketing $777 million of bonds backed by lines of credit that it extends to auto dealerships, according to Standard & Poor’s.

Higher conforming loan limits in high-cost areas create a risk-sharing dilemma, due to limits on how many can be bundled into plain-vanilla mortgage bonds. Here's Freddie Mac's solution.

Fitch Ratings and Moody’s Investors Service have assigned preliminary ratings to a €700 million, 18-month revolving securitization of unsecured consumer auto loans issued and serviced by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A.

Americans' longstanding relationship to automobiles — owning them, driving them — is set for a dramatic shift, and so is auto finance.

Online marketplace lenders found themselves in the congressional crosshairs Tuesday just as some lawmakers are attempting to provide the industry with sought-after reforms.

Leveraged loan market participants will have to wait a little longer for a big change meant to speed up trade settlement.

Wells Fargo is marketing its second commercial mortgage securitization in two months, this time with a focus on smaller-market retail, hotel and office properties.

OneMain is testing investor appetite for a new kind of subprime auto loan, one that allows borrowers to cash out some of the equity in their vehicles. OneMain, formerly known as Springleaf Financial, is one of the first to securitize a pool of primarily cash-out refinancing auto loans.

Citigroup's next commercial mortgage securitization has heavy exposure to split loans that serve as collateral for a number of other transactions.

Progress Residential is refinancing its first securitization of single-family rental properties.

Sallie Mae Bank is preparing its second private student loan securitization of the year, according to Fitch Ratings.

Banks that stuck with student lending after the financial crisis are finding the business far less risky than it used to be.

Dutch mortgage lender Obvion N.V. is structuring its 34th securitization of residential mortgages through its Purple Storm 2016 B.V trust.

Recently allegations of fraud against Lending Club and several Chinese marketplace lenders have some observers calling for more daylight on the loans sold on these marketplaces. Specifically, they're floating the idea of a technology and service that would register and track ownership of the loans and validate basic facts about them and the borrowers.

Late payments on securitized commercial mortgages moved noticeably higher in June, as several large loans failed to pay off at maturity.

Dell Financial Services is prepping its first equipment-lease securitization of the year, with a transaction that slightly dilutes the concentration of large-enterprise contracts among its obligors.

BMW of North America's owner trust is issuing its first auto-loan securitization in nearly two years, while CarMax is coming out with its second of 2016. Also, Nissan is planning to issue its first dealer floorplan ABS of the year.