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CBAM Asset Management's $1B CBAM 2017-4 is not its largest deal among the four BSL portfolios it has issued in less than eight months; but the latest transaction is still almost double the average peer CLO deal size of $511 million since the third quarter.

The two prospective pools of loans have nearly identical average FICO scores (769 for the $1 billion pool, 770 for the $1.25 billion) and weight average APR (2.13% and 2.11%, respectively).

That’s an about-face from the bank’s previous transaction, completed in October, which was backed by fixed-rate mortgages, nearly half of which were underwritten to standards for purchase by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.

The $785 million transaction, 2017-C41, is backed by a pool of 52 loans with an average balance of just $15.1 million, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency; retail, hotel and office properties dominate the mix.

Over 80% of collateral for the $2 billion transaction consists of trucks, SUVs and crossovers; the deal is also the largest that the captive finance company has sponsored in the last three years.

For the first time in five years, MassMutual has a second securitization within a calendar year backed by loans and leases to large corporates, including federal government agencies.

Strong legal and structural protections earned the debt top grades from Kroll and Fitch. S&P wasn't as bullish.

The deal, known as Bayview Opportunity Master Fund IVb Trust 2017-RT6, pools 2,745 current loans, of which nearly 58% have been clean for at least two years, and 55.2% have been modified.

Fitch and KBRA have slightly lower estimates for cumulative net losses for 2017-3, allowing the marketplace lender to offer slightly lower credit enhancement on the senior notes; concerns remain about poorly performing legacy loans.

Coping with merging two securitization platforms and the integration of GE Capital's former fleet lease and management business, the Canadian lessor has seen 30-plus and 60-plus delinquencies more than triple.

CarMax, BMW, Santander and Credit Acceptance Corp. all launched deals Thursday; they add to the $35 billion in prime auto, $12.31 billion in prime lease, and $19.4 billion in subprime auto loan ABS so far this year.

Issuing bonds backed by credit-card receivables was formerly a bi-annual occurance for First National Bank of Omaha. This year, FNBO has served up a pair of transactions of its direct-issue and co-branded cards.

The deal does not even merit a BBB-plus, according to Fitch, which cites insufficient credit enhancement, exposure to high-risk obligors, and the servicer's lack of experience.

Select Portfolio Servicing grew its mortgage servicing rights portfolio by over 14% in the second quarter by targeting opportunities in the nonagency loan market.

The new master-trust issuance of Visa and Mastercard receivables from accounts originated and serviced by the lender builds the year's bank-card ABS volume to nearly $38 billion.

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.

Nissan's second U.S. lease-securitization of 2017 pools more than 71,000 contracts with $1.5 billion outstanding on cars, SUVs and cross-overs. Delinquencies remain low, but residual values are growing volatile.

Ford Motor Credit's second master trust issuance funding its dealer inventory financing has pushed floorplan ABS industry-wide past $8.5 billion, the busiest year for the asset class since 2014.

The total includes over $78 billion in new transactions; collateralized loan obligations issued post-crisis have lmited exposure to Toys R Us, which filed for bankruptcy last week.

Credit enhancement for the senior, triple-A-rated notes is in line with recent Honda transactions, but the pool of collateral is concentrated (12%) in Texas and Florida, making it vulnerable to economic disruption from hurricanes.