The Structured Finance Association has canceled its Canadian industry conference in May, while IMN has called off a CRE CLO confab scheduled in NY this week.

Mortgage lenders could benefit from the surge in refinancing due to widening market spreads, and that could help offset damage to servicing rights portfolio valuations, according to Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.

The agencies recommend steps banks should take to proactively prevent disruption of operations, minimize contact between staff and customers, and plan for how affected employees reenter the workplace, among other things.

The agency's effort to engage with lawmakers on a whistleblower award program is one of three initiatives the bureau announced to advance its strategy of preventing consumer harm.

Following four prior securitizations of prime auto-loan originations through its Carvana Auto Receivables Trust (CRVNA), the firm will sponsor its first pool of non-prime retail used auto loans underwritten via its e-commerce platform.

FirstKey Mortgage is sponsoring a rare pooling of manufactured housing loans in a $507.1 million securitization.

Most states have some kind of pricing limit on consumer loans. But proposals for a national usury law divide even Democrats, some of whom are concerned about restricting credit.

Compliance, risk management and staffing will likely come under added scrutiny as regulators lay out a framework for future fintech-bank mergers.

CoreVest American Finance and Amherst Financial have each launched new securitizations of single-family rentals, following the pricing Wednesday of the first SFR transaction of the year by Progress Residential.

Fannie Mae completed its first two Credit Insurance Risk Transfer transactions of 2020, shifting $1 billion of single-family loan credit risk to insurers and reinsurers.

Nelnet Student Loan Trust 2020-2, arranged by Bank of Montreal, is made up of nearly 50% of formerly delinquent loans that have been cured to current status.

In announcing the central bank’s emergency rate cut, Chairman Jerome Powell warned that the Fed can only do so much.