Asset managers appear mixed on whether credit conditions on spreads and corporate defaults will worsen in 2020 – or remain at today’s benign levels. But few expect any near-term improvement.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told senators that the central bank is willing to explore a credit-sensitive interest benchmark in addition to the secured overnight financing rate, which some banks say could cause problems during economic stress.
February 12
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Regulators are alarmed about banks' rising exposure to high-risk corporate credits and want more data on how they would perform in a recession.
February 11
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Total Engine Asset Management, or TEAM, is sponsoring an ABS totaling $$256.98 million backed by leases and asset values of 30 engines on lease (or contracted to lease) to 13 airlines in 11 countries.
February 11
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The bank priced $1 billion in new fixed-rate Class A notes from its Chase Issuance Trust platform.
February 10 - LIBOR
The government-sponsored enterprises’ plan to cease accepting loans pegged to the London interbank offered rate a year ahead of its scheduled expiration is expected to hasten action in securitized markets.
February 10
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Consumer sentiment about purchasing a home nears its record high as almost half of those surveyed said mortgage rates will stay at the current low levels, according to Fannie Mae.
February 10
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The Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2020-REV1 transaction is Ford’s 12th under its platform that permits revolving assets during the pre-amortization period of the transaction.
February 10 -
According to presale reports on Flagship’s $355 million auto-loan securitization, the subprime auto lender is removing the 2% collateral pool limit on loans over six years (72 months) that can be added during a three-month prefunding period for Flagship Auto Credit Trust 2020-1.
February 6 -
Members of the House Financial Services Committee chastised Kathy Kraninger for not supervising student loan servicers and failing to examine firms for compliance with the Military Lending Act.
February 6
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Think Finance, which had teamed with tribal lenders to offer high interest installment loans, could no longer make or collect on loans in states that have caps on interest rates, under terms of a proposed settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
February 6 -
The lease deal – Santander’s sixth ABS of Chrysler Capital leases since 2017 – has a higher proportion of leases with original terms longer than 36 months (44.5%) than prior deals through the platform.
February 5
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In a letter to CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger, the Democratic senators argue that task force members cannot be trusted to protect consumers because they have represented payday lenders or Wall Street banks, or worked at law firms that did so.
February 5
