Carvana Auto Receivables Trust 2021-N2 is the used-car retailer's ninth securitization since 2019, and the third to include a pool exclusively made of non-prime loans.

During a House Financial Services Committee hearing, Democrats largely praised the policy decisions of acting regulators named by the Biden administration and knocked their predecessors. But Republicans warned that moves to reverse Trump-era policies would leave financial institutions without a clear road map.

Average loan size also continues to increase, as demand remains high and costs in homebuilding materials rise this year.

Only 0.9% of mortgage borrowers are currently at least 90 days delinquent. That figure could rise as high as 3.8% once pandemic-related deferrals lapse — still well below the 6% mark reached after the Great Recession, according to research by the New York Fed.

The $1 billion bond, which follows similar issuances by Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Truist Financial, gives a big role to broker-dealers owned by minorities, women and disabled veterans.

Economic recovery should soar into the summer as vaccination rates climb and restrictions loosen up, but low inventory is likely to limit mortgage activity into the next year, according to Fannie Mae.

Issuance of capital market instruments aimed at protecting one government-sponsored enterprise from distressed mortgage credit events staged a relatively quick rebound in 2020, a new Federal Housing Finance Agency report shows.

The loans, previously securitized in 2015, have a weighted-average interest rate of 8.57%, balances averaging $15,182 and remaining scheduled terms of 186 months.

The $500.2 million Morgan Stanley Residential Mortgage Loan Trust 2021-2 is supported by 547 prime-quality loans, many of them large-balance loans with outstanding obligations exceeding $1 million.

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With little transitional disruption, the bigger players on the non-agency side could gain a hefty share of non-owner-occupied mortgage volume as a result of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s caps on such purchases, a KBRA analysis finds.

The deal was constructed under Angel Oak’s social-bond framework, in which the firm intends to use the proceeds to help finance residential loans for underserved borrowers.