Community lenders may choose to stop serving small businesses rather than absorb the expense of collecting information on race and ethnicity under a proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Athas Capital Group originated the mortgages, which have an average balance of $408,350, and an average weighted average (WA) original term of 362 months.

Overall application activity was down by more than 40% compared with one year ago, the Mortgage Bankers Association found.

NMEF 2022-A, benefits from some improved credit characteristics. Personal guarantors have a weighted average (WA) FICO score of 719, up from 712, compared with 2021-A.

This deal appears to be the first since the Netherlands-headquartered multinational acquired First Investors in an all-cash transaction finalized last November.

The complaint seeks unspecified damages over the bank’s mortgage origination and underwriting practices, alleging minority homebuyers were excluded from affordable, low-risk loans.

CDFI-originated loans are not required to comply with the Ability to Repay (ATR) rules, but the mortgages included were generally made to creditworthy borrowers.

Eight middle market CLOs were under critical observation; 97% of them were upgraded and 3% were affirmed, and 14 notes under investment-grade were upgraded.

In a Senate Banking Committee hearing on the economy, Republicans reiterated their demand for more transparency from Sarah Bloom Raskin, President Biden's pick to serve as vice chairman for supervision at the Federal Reserve.

The portfolio is one of several particularly large, recent deals related to the cash-flows from mortgage payments, but it has an unusual composition.

The agreement to acquire Vantage Financial in Minnesota comes less than a year after Peoples Bank purchased North Star Leasing in Vermont.

About 58.1% of the loans are in California, while two California cities -- Los Angeles and San Diego -- make up the pool’s largest MSA concentrations.