Justine Leigh-Bell will lead AFII's strategic direction and collaborate with asset owners and managers to integrate climate and nature factors into fixed-income portfolio construction.

Large and mega investors accounted for 5.8% of all single family-home purchases in December, up from 4.8% at the same time last year, according to Cotality.

The deal is the cell tower sector's largest-ever securitization and features its first single-B rated tranche.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will add loan-level buydown data to MBS this spring, giving investors clearer insight into prepayment risk tied to temporary rate incentives.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's complaint portal has been flooded in recent years, but corporate debt collectors, industry attorneys and consumer advocates question whether the bureau's efforts to reduce the volume will help consumers as much as it helps the firms they're complaining about.

Point Digital Finance originated the underlying home equity contracts, composed of first lien (11.1%), primarily second-lien (82.9%) and third liens (5.81%) on residential properties.

A much shorter liquidity horizon could draw back the biggest banks, increasing liquidity and tightening spreads.

He will advise clients on securitization, structured finance, secured lending and receivables transactions, on his second time with the company.

A House subcommittee hearing discussing the future of the government-sponsored enterprises, noted both are still severely undercapitalized.

SEMT 2026-2, will repay investors through a senior-subordinate structure, with a shifting-interest structure.

Adjustments related to higher credit risk weights for new acquisitions and rate shifts offset increases in the government-sponsored enterprise's core earnings.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics issued its delayed January employment report Wednesday morning, showing the economy added 130,000 jobs in January. But the agency also sharply revised its estimates for total jobs created in 2025 to 181,000 from 584,000.