At an industry conference, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra said he was open to suggestions on how to increase choice and competition to benefit mortgage lenders and borrowers.

BofA is betting the Federal Reserve will make only one cut to the federal funds rate by the end of this year. MBA says originators are in for a $1.6 to $1.8 trillion year.

While the total credit enhancement package is higher to overcollateralization, which represents 1.00% of the pool balance, was lower than the 3.00% seen on the HGVT 2023-1 deal.

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Michael Barr Monday spoke at length about efforts to enhance banks' liquidity and long-term debt positions after last year's bank failures while saying little about the capital hikes in the embattled interagency Basel III endgame proposal.

Western Benefits Group initiated contracts with student loan borrowers extracting monthly fees upfront, while claiming to negotiate debt consolidation through a supposed affiliation with the Department of Education, the CFPB said.

A recommendation to give Ginnie Mae expanded authorities is drawing focus in the reactions to a Financial Stability Oversight Council report on nonbank risks.

Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said Friday that the agency will be moving forward with rules and enforcement actions after the defeat of a Supreme Court challenge to the agency's constitutionality.

The 2024-5 series are secured by a pool of loans purchasing primary residences, with an original, cumulative LTV of 73.9%, and a debt-to-income ratio of 35.5%.

Citing auto sales as a potential leading indicator, observers say the labor market's health might be overstated, while auto ABS assets start to underperform.

An independent third-party company will provide the primary servicing, and the industry and equipment diversification levels are strong in the pool.

The current transaction will sell the most in securitized bonds since the 2022-1 series came to market with $850 million in notes.

The Supreme Court issued an opinion Thursday morning that was unequivocal in its view that Congress is constitutionally empowered to fund agencies with open-ended and indirect funding mechanisms, overruling a 5th Circuit opinion from 2022 that found that executive branches must be subject to direct Congressional appropriations.