Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr said his "holistic" review of capital standards is still underway, but noted the benefits of stronger requirements in a speech Thursday.

Members of the Brazos Electric Power Cooperative seek to recoup cost outlays from the fallout of Winter Storm Uri in 2021 the latest Texas utility to do so.

Prime mortgage activity fell notably while nonprime deals and government-sponsored enterprise credit risk transfers increased in 2022, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

The catalog itself is valued at $4.1 billion, easily the largest portfolio value among the securitization industry's recent music royalty transactions.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that interest rates could climb less quickly as early as December, but warned that cutting rates "is not something we want to do soon."

The right to collect a tariff from some 650,000 retail electricity service customers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area will secure the ratepayer backed bonds.

Early next year the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals is slated to consider whether certain loans are actually securities.

Lenders that offer streamlined refinances in the future shouldn't be required to consider the borrower's income or employment status, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. The trade group's comments were part of its response to a request for information on mortgage products that would support the financial stability of households.

For hotel mortgage-backed securities, Fitch expects a better outlook, with the 2023 delinquency rate not expected to return to its pandemic peak of 18.4%.

Rising interest rates and tightening consumer credit are likely to drive many consumers to use interest-free point-of-sale loans, putting BNPL fintechs' data-driven underwriting to the test.

John Williams, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, praised the Fed's new guidelines for granting fintechs and other nonbanks access to the payment system. He also echoed calls for new rules to govern stablecoins and cryptocurrencies.

However, a tiered pricing system will limit an inflation-driven increase to under 10% for a small group of originators.