Natalya Michaels, recently of Artisan Partners, will be a managing director with a focus on marketing, investor relations as well as expanding the firm's investor and product base.

Fitch Ratings reports the deal is the first post-crisis RMBS securitization it has rated consisting entirely of manufactured-housing loans.

PACE financing, which peaked at $1.7 billion in 2016, was less than half that in 2018, and only two publicly rated deals totaling have priced this year.

“We won’t, unless you get a policy mistake or you get a massive market accident,” he said at the annual ABS East confab in Miami.

Digital loan underwriting has taken the lion's share of the volume of unsecured consumer lending, a sector with plenty of room for growth, according to DBRS.

If the court agrees to hear the case, its conservative majority could make it easier for a president to fire a CFPB director, though other outcomes are possible.

The recapitalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac prior to the 2020 election is unlikely even if the net worth sweep ends, according to a Keefe, Bruyette & Woods report.

Verizon Owner Trust 2019-C will be offering $953.9 million in bonds via Barclays, including $850 million in a Class A-1 tranche split between fixed- and floating-rate notes.

An opening day panel for ABS East focused on the growing number of choices investors have in asset classes and structural options.

A Philadelphia commercial property developer is refinancing a loan for a renovated complex, according to S&P Global Ratings.

The proposed reforms of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have gotten all the attention, but the administration also wants to scale back the Federal Housing Administration, expand its capital cushion and adopt risk-based pricing. Some of the ideas have former agency officials concerned.

The original $436.5 million whole-business securitization deal that closed in May 2018 has already been downgraded twice, due in large part to dueling lawsuits between ousted founder Harvey Franco and Australia-based Macquarie over the past year.