Securitization

Renovate America is marketing another $305.3 million of bonds backed by Property Assessed Clean Energy bonds financing energy efficiency renovations for California homeowners.

New Residential is marketing another $301 million securitization of re-performing mortgage loans, according to Moody's Investors Service.

A committee convened by the Federal Reserve to examine potential replacements for widely used interbank offered rate benchmarks has published its interim conclusions, identifying two potential alternatives.

Real estate investment trust Colony Starwood Homes is issuing its first securitization of single-family rental homes since it was created out of the merger of Colony American Homes (CAH) and Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust (SWAY) last January. Colony Starwood Homes 2016-1 is backed by a single $538 million loan secured by the investor-owner mortgages in 3,566 homes.

One of the country's largest online lenders is cutting jobs and shelving expansion plans in response to investors' rapid retreat from the beleaguered sector.

BPCE Group, France’s second-largest bank, is pooling together €5 billion (U.S.$5.6 billion) worth of personal consumer loans into a securitization portfolio, including a mix of auto, cash, home improvement and debt consolidation loans.

Now that it has the green light to expand its role in multifamily housing, Freddie Mac is looking to at more ways to shift the credit risk on apartment building mortgages that it insures.

American Honda and Ally Financial each filed for new securitization offerings Wednesday, with Honda launching its second ABS of 2016 with a $1.28 billion portfolio comprised of its typical low-interest, high credit-quality loans.

The $874.8 million in notes is backed by 4,053 individual loans by borrowers with blemished credit, but with rehabbed loans that have an average seasoning of 102 months. The borrowers have been current for at least the last 24 months.

SoFi Lending, the marketplace lender that specializes in refinancing student loans to borrowers in post-graduate medical, legal and professional fields, has baked some additional investor protections into its latest securitization.

GMF Floorplan Owner Revolving Trust 2016-1, totaling $592.47 million, is only the second-ever securitization of dealer financing receivables through the GFORT vehicle, founded in 2013.

After a nightmarish week, Lending Club now finds itself contemplating emergency maneuvers that would have been unimaginable at the start of the month.

Marketplace lenders may be able to teach banks a thing or two about speeding up loan origination, but when it comes to securitization, they could use a few pointers themselves.

The ranks of CLO investors may have thinned this year amid broader bond market turmoil, but it can still be difficult to put money to work with the best managers.

Speaking at IMN’s 5th annual conference on leveraged loans and collateralized loan obligations, LSTA executive Meredith Coffey and SFIG executive director Richard Johns each gave sobering assessments of the inevitable, and possibly debilitating, arrival of new capital ratio and risk retention standards to CLOs and other ABS deals.

Some 69% of collateralized loan obligations completed so far comply with impending risk retention rules, according to Meredith Coffey, research director at the Loan Syndications and Trading Association..

Prosper Marketplace Inc. has met with investors including Fortress Investment Group about potential capital injections, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Despite a recent pickup in new issuance of both collateratlized loan obligations and the leveraged loans used as collateral, many participants at an industry conference see more trouble ahead.

Freddie Mac is expanding its efforts to sell to private investors a portion of the credit risk on certain multifamily mortgages it guarantees.