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New rules designed to stop U.S. companies from moving their tax addresses offshore are so written so broadly that they could disrupt the securitization market, a trade group warned Thursday.

An eventual "Brexit" from the European Union could exclude CLO managers and investors from the CLO market under existing and proposed EU rules that restrict risk-retention and market activity to EU regulated firms.

The Shops at Crystals, a Las Vegas luxury shopping mecca of gilded names like Louis Vuitton and Prada, is securitizing a portion of its new commercial mortgage loan in a $300 million trust notes issuance.

Bond rating agency DBRS has assigned provisional ratings to an asset-backed vehicle comprised of €1.2 billion of consumer personal and mortgage loans originated by Spanish bank Caixabank.

A mix of esoteric lease receivables from real estate, equipment and auto transport assets is being securitized through a €1.03 billion notes offering from Alba Leasing, an Italian corporate credit finance firm.

Duke Energy Florida's $1.3 billion utility fee securitization sets an important precedent.

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.

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

Growth in air travel is slowing, but investors are still snapping up bonds backed by leases on passenger jets.

Although European CLO issuance picked up in March following new central bank quantitative easing efforts, volume still finished the first quarter with a 42% decline from the same period a year ago, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

GREEN STORM 2016 B.V., a €271.3M RMBS in The Netherlands, is the first-ever securitization of homes pooled together specifically for their energy-efficiency rating, according to Moody's.

BPCE Group, France’s second-largest bank, is pooling together €5 billion (U.S.$5.6 billion) worth of personal consumer loans into a securitization portfolio, including a mix of auto, cash, home improvement and debt consolidation loans.

Speaking at IMN’s 5th annual conference on leveraged loans and collateralized loan obligations, LSTA executive Meredith Coffey and SFIG executive director Richard Johns each gave sobering assessments of the inevitable, and possibly debilitating, arrival of new capital ratio and risk retention standards to CLOs and other ABS deals.

There’s a real downside to extremely low or even negative interest rates. Existing CLOs may not earn enough from their euro-denominated assets to pay the interest on the notes they issue.

VCL Master Netherlands B.V. is a Euro-denominated ABS that will issue two series of notes backed by €260.05 million in outstanding principal of from more than 14,000 vehicle lease contracts, as well as €108.97 million in receivables’ residual values.

Moody’s Investors Service has assigned a provisional ‘Aaa’ rating to the class of €556.5 million Class A floating rate notes. None have been assigned to the €43.5 million Class B stack.

A joint venture involving the captive finance arm of French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroën and Santander Consumer UK is issuing its first UK auto financing securitization since gaining regulatory approval for operations there.

Taurus 2016-2 Deu DAC has a five-class notes structure, including a triple-A provisionally rated €140 million tranche at the top of the capital stack.

BMW AG is securitizing its fourth pool of auto loans to German consumers and business customers in a €800 million transaction through its Bavarian Sky S.A. platform.

Carlyle Global Market Strategies Euro CLO 2016-1 was launched with target par of €400 million (US$457.1 million). Credit Suisse Asset Management is also looking to issue €400 million in notes through Cadogan Square CLO VII B.V.