Freddie Mac's efforts to improve underwriting could include the use of a technology firm's artificial intelligence-driven consumer-risk modeling software that can expand access to credit, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Digital-first lenders more than doubled their market share in the last four years, according to a report by Experian.

The Newport Beach, Calif.,-based aircraft lease firm is sponsoring its first deal since a debut securitization in 2017.

Members of the House Financial Services Committee cited leveraged lending, cybersecurity and the switch to a new interest rate benchmark among potential systemic risks that keep them up at night.

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.