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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.

Westgate Resorts is planning a $94 million securitization of timeshare loans, its third transaction for 2012, according to a presale report by Standard & Poor’s.

Belgium’s KBC issued its inaugural covered bonds to strong investor appetite that saw orders for the bank’s €1.5 billion ($1.9bn) benchmark swell to €6bn.

Moody’s Investor Service has assigned a Prime-1 rating to Royal Bank of Canada’s $10 Billion ABCP Program called Bedford Row Funding Corp.

Stricter rules for the eligibility of covered bonds used in the European Central Bank’s repo facility are unlikely to significantly depress collateral postings, because the new ABS rule affect few issuers.Stricter rules for the eligibility of covered bonds used in the European Central Bank’s repo facility are unlikely to significantly depress collateral postings, because the new ABS rule affect few issuers.

Westgate Resorts said that the securitization market has allowed the company to lock in fixed-rate capital while eliminating refinancing risk on these portfolios.