Navient’s next securitization of private student-loan refinancing will involve only loans primarily issued to advanced-degree professionals by online lender Earnest, which Navient acquired in 2017.

The RMBS transaction is only the second deal JPMorgan's trust has issued for non-qualified loans issued under asset-level exceptions for high-net-worth and self-employed borrowers.

The 20 whole loans in the transaction are secured by Bridge's weakest-rated collateral pool to date, compared to three prior Bridge REIT deals.

The bank regulators extended a moratorium for the proprietary trading ban for certain affiliates of foreign banks by an additional two years.

The firms jointly announced that Erin Stafford will head the NA commercial mortgaged-backed securities ratings team and Quincy Tang will lead the residential MBS group. Stafford and Tang currently hold similar roles with DBRS.

Fannie Mae increased its mortgage origination forecast as lower interest rates, driven by economic uncertainty, will lead to more refinance activity, but other factors will continue to hold back home purchases.

Verus Securitization Trust 2019-INV2 is backed by investor loans secured by 1,042 rental properties. The loans were originated by 76 different lenders.

Occidental Management is sponsoring a single-asset, single-borrower deal through JPMorgan backed by the fee simple interest from receivables of a lease-buyback arrangement with Sprint Corp.

China has few alternatives to replace its dependence on the U.S. market for soybeans, its major U.S. agricultural export, according to Moody’s.

For the first time, the captive-finance lender has also opted to add SOFR-based benchmark rate "fallback" plans into one of its deals, which would stand in for one-month Libor should the London interbank offered rate becomes unavailable in 2021.

Life insurance companies increased their mortgage investments to levels higher than historical norms, creating more potential danger for their portfolios in the event of a real estate downturn, a Fitch Ratings report said.

MPL securitizations have yet to face a credit-cycle test. The discussion over how they will handle one is intensifying.