About 3.4 million renters believe themselves to be at risk of eviction, but when the moratorium ends, the actual number may be between 130,000 and 660,000, according to a Zillow report published Monday.

A recent statement by acting Director Dave Uejio is the clearest signal that the agency plans to revive strong underwriting standards that the Trump administration eliminated.

The 2021 deal tally is split between $37 billion in new-issue transactions along with $68 billion in refis/resets, according to S&P Global Ratings.

The development bodes well for outcomes on distressed loans backed by major government-related mortgage investors Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The first-time securitization by the online commercial-finance will involve more than half of the San Francisco-based company's managed accounts portfolio.

The heads of the Federal Reserve and Treasury are urging passage of legislation that would replace Libor with the Secured Overnight Financing Rate in certain contracts. That would spare banks litigation over trillions of dollars of contracts when Libor expires in 2023.

Deals, trends and research in structured finance and asset-backed securities for the week of March 19-25

The FHFA’s forbearance extension to September is forcing nonbank servicers to buy out more delinquent loans. It's also upended loss estimates for investors and made racial and income disparities in the mortgage market worse.

The act, yet to be signed by Gov. Cuomo, aims to resolve the difficult problem of how to fairly compensate floating-rate investors in instruments for which the London interbank offered rate is no longer published.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she prefers to have the Financial Stability Oversight Council flag hazardous activities by nonbanks rather than subject specific firms to heightened supervision.

Complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau jumped 54% to 542,300 in 2020. Concerns about credit reports have long outnumbered those in other categories and jumped significantly as a share of the total from 2019.

Pretium Partners and Ares Management recently closed on a $2.5 billion acquisition of SFR owner/operator Front Yard Residential Corp., in a deal first announced last October.