Europe

Over 80% of the cars are diesel-engine vehicles, bringing potential volatility to the portfolio cash flows given the public debate over potential panning such cars in several European urban centers.

A wave of corporate loan refinancings is putting collateralized loan obligations afoul of a covenant designed to safeguard their own investors.

Belmont Green Finance, which began originating loans in late 2016, has gathered up its first round of originations through 3Q2017 in a transaction that will issue up to £230.6 million in notes.

The French specialty lender, owned by a consortium of mutual insurers, is pooling over 54,000 loans it originated and services for clients of its shareholders.

Penta CLO 3 is the first CLO since 2015 for the UK subsidiary of Swiss global asset management Partners Group Holdings AG.

The deal, Sunrise SPV 20 S.r.l., is collateralized by more than 120,000 auto, furniture and personal loans originated by the Italian lender.

Most of the 181 jets used as collateral were acquired from GE Capital Corp. in 2015; proceeds from prepayments and liquidations can be used to acquire additional aircraft.

The loans have an average balance of €18.5k (US$22.1k) and went to 39,698 borrowers; they are secured by a pool of new (46.8%) and used (53.2%) cars, according to Moody's Investors Service.

The €684.8 million transaction is backed primarily by new-car leases to German prime borrowers. It's the 21st German securitization by FCE Bank, Ford's UK-based captive finance arm.

New issuance of U.S. collateralized loan obligations reached $11.9 billion across 24 deals, taking year-to-date volume past $72.3 billion, according to Thomson Reuters LPC. The eight-month total is higher than the total issuance for all of 2016.