Finance

California's new, higher legal smoking age heralds more trouble for tobacco securitization debt, said an analyst who has followed the sector for years.

A spring survey of European asset-backed portfolio managers shows a vast majority expects to increase their securitization holdings in 2016. But many see a “muted level” of issuance in which to add securities, according to the DBRS polling.

JPMorgan Chase is issuing its third credit-card securitization of the year – and the second this month – through its Chase Issuance Trust (CHAIT) platform of CHASEseries notes.

Fannie Mae has obtained an additional $563 million of mortgage reinsurance through three transactions.

SBA Communications is tapping the securitization market for $700 million, according to rating agency reports.

Mortgage lenders, debt collectors and credit card companies have borne the brunt of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's public enforcement actions over the past four years, yet banks have paid the most in penalties and restitution, according to a new study released by an agency insider.

EU Parliament member Paul Tang shocked the region’s securitization industry last week when he proposed increasing the amount of “skin in the game” for asset-backeds, by four-fold, to 20% from 5%. He's giving the keynote at IMN's Global ABS conference

SoFi Lending Corp. is Marketing its first Rated Consumer Loan Securitization

The $2.8 billion in CLOs that have priced this month is not enough to reverse the sluggish 2016 CLO market, which is down over 50% in both deal count and dollar volume compared to mid-2015. But six deals to date in June are pacing toward a third straight month of collateralized loan obligation deal volume topping $5 billion.

Moody's revised its criteria for rating FFELP ABS to take into account heavy borrower usage of Income Based Repayment.

Synchrony Financial said Tuesday that it is expecting loan losses to rise over the next year as more consumers struggle to pay off their credit card balances

Renewable Funding is preparing its first securitization of Property Assessed Green Energy Bonds, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Cherrywood Commercial Lending, a specialty finance company that caters to owners of smaller commercial properties, is preparing a $115 million securitization, according to DBRS.

A survey of insurers conducted by the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council and Trepp indicates that participants allocated 11.08% of their invested assets to commercial mortgages at the end of 2015, an increase of 40 basis points over the end of 2014.

Chesapeake Funding I LLC Series 2016-2 follows the $600 million offering in March in the Series 2016-1 Series, which together combine for about half the collateral pool of nearly $2 billion in receivables balances on open-ended vehicle leases serviced by Element Vehicle Management Services Group.

Caliber Home Loans is marketing a residential mortgage-backed securitization mainly backed by nonprime loans, called COLT 2016-1 Mortgage Loan Trust.

State student loan authorities sense a business opportunity helping graduates who are gainfully employed lower their payments. Their low-cost funding could put them in competition with banks and marketplace lenders.

Loan market participants are in an uproar over the announcement by the European Parliament this Monday that it is considering quadruple the amount of skin that originators of asset-backed securities must have in the game.

Spruce Finance, Inc., a newly formed financier of residential energy-efficiency and solar panel installations, is issuing its first securitization of home improvement loans originated through both its predecessor companies and Fannie Mae.