Europe

Santander has commonly offered multicurrency (dollar and pound-sterling) notes through its Holmes master trust platform.

Volkswagen Bank's Driver 15 is its first German auto-loan securitization since March, as Europe's largest auto-finance company furthers a comeback from the 2015 VW diesel-engine scandal.

The £325 million Dryden 63 CLO, sponsored by PGIM, will issue six classes of sterling-denominated notes; Barclays’ £4.5 billion Sirius Funding is issuing three tranches in three different currencies.

Mindful Wealth, an investment firm based in Singapore, is raising money to put to work in some of the riskier tranches of U.S. collateralized loan obligations, those rated BBB and B.

Towd Point Mortgage Funding 2018 Auburn 12 Plc is backed by 2,913 properties, all of which were previously securitized in the sponsor’s 2015-vintage Auburn Securities 9 portfolio.

The triple-A rated senior tranche of Ares European CLO X has a coupon of 85 basis points above Euribor, an indication that a four-month widening trend in Europe CLO spreads continues; the deal is expected to close in September.

Tikehau CLO IV B.V. will control €400 million (UA$466.5 million) in mostly European leveraged loans and high-yield bonds (with an allowance for up to 25% of non-euro-denominated assets), according to Fitch Ratings.

The 1,210-loans backing Gemgarto 2018-1 all finance owner-occupied loans, and none rely on self-certified or "fast-track" loans, according to presale reports from Moody's Investors Service and DBRS.

The €414.2 million CVC Cordatus Loan Fund XI will issue exchangeable shares for four classes of notes; this allows the fund to hold bonds without putting itself off-limits to U.S. banks.

In the U.S., the 12-month trailing default rate fell to 3.4% in June from 4% in March, while in Europe it declined to 2.2% from 2.8% over the quarter. Globally, defaults stood at 2.9%, down from 3.4% in the first quarter.