Portfolio enhancements and diversifications cushion the impact of the L.A. wildfires from RMBS losses.
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Completed foreclosure auctions should be 8% lower this year, but if home value and unemployment expectations change, all bets are off, Auction.com said.
February 5 -
The GMALT 2025-1 securitization has just 24.4% of contracts with original leases longer than 36 months. It's the lowest level for the platform, a credit positive.
February 5 -
Tenants also have a high average credit quality, with 75.9% of them having at least an investment grade rating, and lease assets underlying the class A notes have a loan-to-value (LTV) ratio limited to 70%.
February 4 -
The president's rough-and-tumble trade negotiations have throttled financial markets, causing investors to flock to the safety of dollars and Treasuries. But some economists say this style of policymaking could have hurt the U.S.'s safe haven status in the long run.
February 4 -
Some mortgage stakeholders say Trump's tariffs would make interest rates rise and housing costs shoot up.
February 4
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Residential customers made up 70.1% of NYSEG's sales revenue, while commercial and industrial customers account for the other 30% of sales. The latter is a relatively high exposure for such deals.
February 4 -
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who was named to be acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has told the agency's staff to put a halt to all rules, enforcement actions and hiring.
February 3 -
Unlike previous FIGRE deals where overcollateralization provided credit support to the notes, FIGRE Trust 2025-HE1 has a class G composed of principal-only notes that provide the credit support.
February 3 -
Debt service coverage ratio triggers, including cash trapping and rapid amortization, will provide much of the credit enhancements to the notes.
February 3 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Rohit Chopra in a letter to President Donald Trump confirmed that his "term as CFPB Director has concluded."
February 1 -
The deal has a step-up coupon feature that calls for the fixed rates on classes A1, A2 and A3 to increase by 100 basis points, subject to the net weighted average coupon (WAC) after four years.
January 31 -
State banking associations across the country said that Michelle Bowman should be the Federal Reserve vice chair for supervision, not least because she already sits on the Fed board and could start immediately.
January 31