However, the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield pushed back up 15 basis points from a week ago as the markets settle following the recent bank failures.

The year-over-year drop in January stemmed primarily from loans where a payment had not been made in at least 120 days but shorter-term arrears were higher during the same period.

Jelena McWilliams, who chaired the agency during the Trump administration, said removing the cap on insured deposits would impact the banking sector in three key ways.

Top obligors in the 2023-1 transaction also have higher credit quality, with three of the top four obligors having investment grade credit quality, compared with only one top obligor from the 2021-1 deal.

The latest AESOP includes medium- and heavy-duty trucks, plus different minimum depreciation rates of non-program vehicles (NPVs) to account for their market values.

The overall credit picture is mixed in the Golden Credit program, which demonstrated higher net chargeoffs of 1.71% in the February collection period, up noticeably from 1.30% a year before.

Compared with previous deals, Kubota Credit 2023-1's collateral pool is only slightly less diversified, both in terms of obligor concentrations and the equipment mix.

Deal supply remains relatively strong in the sector, but new originations still face a scarcity of new assets to roll into the deals.

Loans located in the 2A market tier accounted for the highest concentration of loans in the pool, at 33.6%.

The use of the Federal Reserve's emergency lending facilities was largely unchanged this week, indicating to some that the recent liquidity crisis isn't getting any worse.

The economic situation is more like what happened during the mid-'80s thrift crisis than the 2008 downturn, said Chief Economist Doug Duncan.

A federal appeals court ruled in favor of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, setting up a court split ahead of a highly anticipated Supreme Court hearing in October. The Fifth Circuit previously ruled that the agency's funding mechanism violates the Constitution's separation of powers doctrine.