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Warning signs are growing in structured finance for 2017.

With looming risk-retention rules less than two months away, collateralized loan obligation managers may push refi levels to new heights before the year is out.

Morningstar Credit Ratings continued its push to become a one-stop ratings agency this fall, adding collateralized loan obligations to its menu of structured finance ratings. The firm issued its first public ratings for two deals in September and November.

Investors in commercial mortgage bonds are becoming comfortable with property assessed clean energy financing.

The $2-per-pack increase boosts the cost for California smokers by 35%, which Moody's said will decrease cigarette consumption across the country because California comprises 10% of total U.S. cigarette consumption.

Banking industry lobbyists and representatives are practically salivating over the election results, convinced that Republican control of the White House and Congress will finally give them the opportunity to roll back key parts of the Dodd-Frank Act.

Select Portfolio Servicing, a unit of Credit Suisse, is markting $600 million of notes backed by the repayment rights to money it has advanced to mortgage bondholders.

Verizon is making its second trip to the securitization market to help offset the expense of providing customers with financing for mobile phones.

TSASC, a local development corporation, is preparing to issue $1.024 billion of debt secured by tobacco settlement revenues, which cigarette companies pay as part of their 1998 settlement with 46 states, including New York.

Apollo Aviation Group priced its third aircraft securitization on Friday, October 28, 2016.