Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee blasted Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra as an 'extortionist' and labeled his efforts to rein in discrimination as 'McCarthyism' during a four-hour hearing Wednesday.

Monetary policy officials have finally gone a month without tightening but made it clear more action could lie ahead, suggesting it could be awhile before housing finance costs consistently fall.

BRAVO will distribute principal pro rata among the senior notes, while shutting out the subordinate bonds from any principal until all of the senior classes are reduced to zero.

CEO Curtis Farmer said the warehouse sector, where Comerica provides lines of credit to mortgage banking companies, has not been providing much help as the company seeks to bolster deposits.

The Treasury has added Property Assessed Clean Energy financing for solar panels and the like to the list of approved expenses that states could authorize.

Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, lambasted the Federal Reserve for increasing the dominance of "too big to fail" banks and failing to rein in systemic risk. He asked whether the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a better regulator than the Fed.

Self-storage properties, the makeup of the collateral portfolio, were the only real estate type that generated returns in the black during the global financial crisis in 2008.

Multifamily properties account for the vast majority of the initial pool balance, at 86.2%, DBRS said, which is a plus because multifamily properties typically have lower default rates than other CMBS property types.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra warned that "powerful firms" must not dominate the new open banking landscape.

Economic analysis from the real estate advisory CBRE finds that community banks are particularly imperiled by their exposure to commercial real estate loans. Others see looming risks in indirect lending.

The current deal, BA Credit Card Trust Class A, 2023-1, has 31.75% in credit support provided by the B, C and D certificates.

The slow rollout of Apple's buy now/pay later service contrasts starkly with the aggressive moves of leading BNPL fintechs. Analysts say Apple's restraint could pay off in time.