ABS

Avolon plans to partner with Wells Fargo, to form a new joint-venture aircraft leasing business called Avolon Capital Partners Limited.

Moody's Investors Service put the ratings of some $20 billion of tobacco settlement revenue bonds under review, saying an agreement over disputed payments could reduce cash flows.

Until the SEC spells out the impact of the Volcker Rule on asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) conduits, the volume of paper outstanding is likely to remain flat or drop slightly, according to a recent report by Standard & Poor’s.

Covered bond investors are taking a more flexible view of the ratings and other characteristics of these investments, according to a survey conducted last month by Fitch Ratings. Yet they are discriminating about which jurisdictions they want exposure to.

Goldman Sachs is marketing $650.35 million of loans backed by lease payments and sale proceeds of a portfolio of 26 narrowbody commercial aircraft.

Fitch Ratings projected on Thursday that structured finance issuance in Europe would, in the aggregate, stay flat in 2013 from 2012.

Diamond Resorts is prepping a $93.56 timeshare securitization, according to a presale report published by Standard & Poor’s.

Standard & Poor’s assigned ‘BBB+’ and ‘BB+’ ratings to the class A and B notes to be issued by Aetna’s Vitality Re IV Ltd. (Series 2013-1), a medical benefit linked securitization deal.

Film studios will have to change their approach to securitization to attract more investors.

View the year-to-date manager rankings for the different ABS sectors, including real estate, credit cards and autos.

Zurich Insurance Group said today that it issued a 3-year, $270 million catastrophe bond called Lakeside Re III.

Experience isn the only thing that sets managers of collateralized loan obligations apart, according to Scott D’Orsi, a partner with Feingold O’Keeffe Capital; it's also a matter of investment style.

JP Morgan Securities held on to the No. 1 spot in the ASR Scorecards Database's repliminary ranking of public managers for full-year 2012.

Upwards of $7 billion of collateralized loan obligations priced in December, bringing the total for the year to around $53 billion, and market participants say the 2012 pipeline is building.

Standard & Poor’s rated a $1.6 billion transaction with multiple tranches, originated by Home Loan Servicing Solutions.

Overall losses for reinsurers aren’t having a negative impact on Catastrophe bonds, in fact the market is moving along quite nicely, according to Swiss Re.

Trinity Rail is planning a $333.84 million securitization of railcar leases, the company’s first deal of 2012.

Investors, sponsors and sellers of asset backed commercial paper continue to buy split-rated assets, said Moody’s Investors Service in a report on Monday.

The Climate Bonds Initiative held roundtable discussions on Dec. 14, to look at how the covered bonds market can best be adapted for renewable energy finance.