The central bank's Financial Stability Report said companies may face difficulties repaying debt given lower earnings, “which could trigger a sizable increase in firm defaults."
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About 9% of government-insured loans in forbearance have low equity, which could hamper post-forbearance servicing.
June 8
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The captive-finance lender for General Motors is providing lower expectations for the vehicles' future residual values, compared to its prior lease ABS deals, in recognition of the likely severe recessionary impact of the coronavirus outbreak.
June 8
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Hudson Americas is pooling its next aggregation of non-qualified, high-balance mortgages in a new securitization that is exposed to a large share of borrowers seeking or already receiving pandemic-related forbearance or deferral on payments. So far, a little over half of those granted the allowance have yet to skip any payments.
June 8
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But there was an increase in private-label mortgages in forbearance.
June 5
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The race to provide coronavirus relief for small businesses is opening new routes to fund payments, including underused credit lines.
June 5
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One criticism of the CARES Act is that it provides relief only to borrowers with government-backed loans. Bills in New York and California would cover the remaining 30% of homeowners.
June 4
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The policy comes more than a month after a different agency issued similar guidance for loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
June 4
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau seeks to address challenged posed by the sunset of the London interbank offered rate at the end of 2021.
June 4
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Fitch Ratings is evaluating all 59 middle-market collateralized loan obligations it rates for potential downgrades, over concerns of the ability of small-business borrowers to support loan payments under COVID-19 stresses.
June 4
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Credit deterioration is slowing in broadly syndicated CLOs – but a large percentage of deals are still failing certain performance tests under the weight of underlying asset downgrades and lower payment flows from obligors.
June 4
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The new FHFA rule sets a percentage-based threshold to measure compliance, rather than Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data.
June 3
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“Since April, the decline in corporate credit has resulted in a significant number of downgrades among the assets underlying some CLOs,” a Moody’s press release stated on Wednesday.
June 3
