Unlike some of FIGRE Trust's previous securitizations, there is no performance trigger related to the net weighted average coupon rate.

Credit risk transfers, a means by which banks can move risk off their balance sheets, earned considerable bipartisan support in a House Financial Services subcommittee hearing Wednesday.

Loans were underwritten to Fannie and Freddie guidelines, or to Ginnie Mae standards that apply to securities backed by jumbo loans ineligible for GSE pools because of their loan size.

Any additional securities that the transaction issues will rank equally with the class that has the same class designation.

The new law adds rules, including counseling requirements, which would put severe constraints on originations of HEIs, an industry representative said.

The credit startup is seeking a limited-purpose charter from federal regulators through the Competitive Equality in Banking Act's credit card bank carveout.

Initially, the transaction will follow a sequential repayment structure that requires each note class to reach a required overcollateralization percentage before the next subordinate class begins receiving principal.

Notes will be backed by royalties from a music catalog containing more than 3,750 works from top artists and songwriters, including Diplo and ZZ Top.

Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf said bankers and economists are broadly against lowering interest rates now, given uncertainty from the Iran war.

Over half of all second-home inventory in the U.S. is concentrated in just eight states, with Florida leading the pack, according to analysis by NAHB.

A five-year-loan is financing Lyrik, a 495,275-square-foot, 20-story office tower, plus 38,012 square feet of retail space in Boston's Back Bay area, a premiere office submarket.

Nationwide, Americans are falling behind on their car loans. But among Ally Financial's customers, delinquencies fell during the first quarter.