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.

DMB Financial, a debt-settlement firm near Boston that operates in 24 states, agreed to pay $5.4 million in restitution to consumers for allegedly charging upfront fees before providing any service, the CFPB said.

Financial institutions said they needed more time to weigh in on issues such as how they use artificial intelligence for fraud prevention and underwriting.

Avant Loans Funding Trust 2021-REV1 is a $200 million note offering backed by loans underwritten through its Avant platform. The $500 million OneMain Financial Issuance Trust 2021-1 is the first deal of the year for OneMain, which has previously issued 23 consumer loan securitizations and five auto-loan ABS deals.

The initial $1.31 billion pool may be potentially upsized to $1.53 billion.

Numbers fell across the board, with private-label and portfolio loans declining most.

This week, Moody’s Investors Service projected elevated credit-loss expectations for a new subprime auto-loan securitization from Veros Credit, even though the new deal has several improved credit metrics compared to the company’s prior ABS offering in March 2020.

Verizon Master Trust, Series 2021-1 is the first series from the new platform which will periodically issue notes that – similar to bank credit-card ABS structures –will be designated to specific groups of accounts.