Commercial banking

The company will use some of its fiber-optic network and associated customer contracts in the Dallas area to back a bond issue that will refinance some of the company's existing debt and finance a network expansion.

Shahar Plinner is founder and CEO of Formations, a predictive tax and accounting solution for the self-employed. An accounting expert with over 20 years of experience in the field, he is an entrepreneur known as The Tax Guru on the West Coast.

Before founding Formations, Plinner moved to Seattle from Israel and founded, scaled and sold a leading tax and accounting firm in the Seattle metro area.

Just 309 prime-quality loans back the note issue.

The deal is Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce's seventh series from the CARDS II master trust.

Kalil Merhib is executive vice president of growth and professional services at CPA.com.

Tommy Tuberville is a Republican U.S. senator from Alabama.

Michael Bright is the CEO of the Structured Finance Association.

Professor Rashied Small is an executive at the the South African Institute of Professional Accountants and SAIPA's Center of Future Excellence.

The Securities and Exchange Commission said it is "not in a position to file" a brief giving its view on whether leveraged loans are securities, sidestepping a request to weigh in on a long-running lawsuit that may have major implications for the $1.4 trillion market for risky debt.

Even as UBS Group plans extensive job cuts for Credit Suisse's workforce, there's at least one place where it's growing: the business of buying leveraged loans and bundling them into bonds.

The notes are secured by the issuer's right to title and interest in over 9,000 outdoor advertising sites in a dozen markets.

Income from single-family rental properties, distributed across more than a dozen states and 34 areas, back the notes. The deal should close later this month.

Carlos Netto is CEO of Matera.

The private equity giant will serve as the investment manager for Vertical Capital Income Fund, a fund that is moving away from investing in residential mortgages to focus on the riskiest tranches of collateralized loan obligations. 

For large banks, the agencies wanted to go above the global standards for residential mortgages, as well as some business loans, to avoid giving those lenders a competitive advantage over smaller peers, according to another person familiar with the proposal.

Prime quality U.S. vehicle leases back an issue comprising 91% class A notes.

The companies are both tapping the U.S. investment-grade primary market, kicking off a potential deluge of fresh bank bonds in the wake of second-quarter earnings.