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Ford Motor Credit is offering its fifth dealer floorplan securitization of the year, marketing $862.75 million in bonds that back lines of credit provided by the captive finance company to its network of dealers.

GE Capital Aviation Services is marketing $709 million of notes backed by aircraft leases, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Renewable Funding, emboldened by the success of its first three trips to the securitization market, is preparing to finance an even larger portion of its lending for energy efficiency upgrades.

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.

The Loan Syndications and Trading Association announced Monday that the new so-called “delayed compensation” standards have resulted “well over 90 percent” compliance in stricter settlement windows for secondary par trades.

Diamond Resorts is preparing its first offering of bonds backed by timeshare loans in nearly a year, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency. A lot has happened in the meantime.

Bank of California in Irvine has sold an equipment-finance business to Hanmi Financial in Los Angeles.

Global aircraft lessor ALC is making a trip to the securitization market to refinance 19 aircraft on lease to 16 airlines located in 13 countries.

USAA is planning to issue another $280 million of catastrophe bonds through its Residential Re platform.

Engs Commercial Finance, a specialty lender that finances the acquisition of trucks and trailer by small and medium-sized businesses, is making its second trip to the securitization market.

The rating agency has changed the way it assesses the risk of combo notes, a hybrid debt and equity instrument, to account for what happens to them when a deal is refinanced. This could result in downgrades on existing combo notes issued by 38 collateralized loan obligations. It could also complicate the way future combo notes are structured.