Securitization

LeasePlan Nederland N.V. plans to sell €537 million of securities backed by Dutch auto leaseinstallment receivables and residual value cash flows.

Moody’s Corp. has acquired Lewtan Technologies, a leading provider of analytical tools and data for the global structured finance market.

Risky mortgage lending may have triggered the financial crisis, but final risk retention rules go much easier on mortgages than securitizations of other kinds of assets.

U.S. regulators finalized a securities risk retention rule on Tuesday designed to set the stage for the future of the secondary mortgage market.

Regulators are finally ready to unveil a final risk retention rule, but whether the new regulation provides enough certainty to jumpstart the mortgage securitization market is an open question.

Volkswagen in marketing €743.3 million ($950M) of securities backed by German auto loans.

Freddie Mac Brings 2 More deals to market sharing the credit risk in residential mortgages that it guarantees.

Regulators will unveil a long-awaited final rule next week that requires lenders to retain some of the risk for loans they securitize, a critical part of the Dodd-Frank Act that the agencies have struggled to implement.

The Blackstone owned, single-family rental operator, Invitation Homes has hired Bryce Blair as executive chairman of the board of directors and John Bartling as president and chief executive officer.

B2R Finance said today that it has hired Evan Lorch as chief financial officer.

FGA Capital, the company formed by a joint venture between Fiat and Credit Agricole, is gearing up to sell €437.5 million of senior rated securities backed by Italian auto loans.

Santander Consumer Finance plans to sell securities backed by Finnish auto loan receivables.

Accord Mortgages, a subsidiary of Yorkshire Building Society plans to securitize a £1.3 billion ($2.09B) portfolio of UK residential mortgages.

Congress should amend the bankruptcy code to permit borrowers to discharge student loan debt if their net monthly income is insufficient.

Timothy Yanoti, Fannie Mae’s former head of securitization, has been named president and a board member of American Financial Resources, an independent mortgage originator.

Aegon priced €1.3 billion ($1.6B) in bonds backed by Dutch residential mortgages and ABN AMRO’s announced plans to issue additional securities from its Dolphin RMBS master trust.

Deutsche Bank and Credit Agricole sold £750 million ($1.26 billion) of bonds backed by the Westfield shopping center at the tighter end of initial price guidance, according to a person familiar with the deal.

Dignity, the U.K.'s second-largest funeral services provider and the biggest private cremation provider, plans to refinance its securitized debt obligations, via a new transaction.