The industry continues to push for an overhaul of the bureau’s leadership structure, but both parties seem uninterested.

Massage Envy, a nationwide franchise of nearly 1,200 spa and massage therapy service locations, is turning to whole business securitization to refinance debt and fund a distribution to its private equity sponsors.

Few changes were made from Verizon Wireless' previous transaction this year, including the standard credit enhancement levels of most of Verizon's recent DPP transactions.

KKR is sponsoring its first middle-market CLO transaction stemming from its direct lending partnership established last year with FS Investments, according to presale reports.

The large number of overleveraged commercial mortgage-backed securities loans coming due in 2019 is likely to cause the payoff rate to drop an additional 9 percentage points by December, a Morningstar report said.

The investment research firm plans to merge DBRS' ratings business with its existing Morningstar Credit Ratings Service.

The agency's spring rulemaking agenda includes the process for collecting small-business data as well as underwriting rules for GSE-backed loans. But what's missing from the list may be just as important.

The collateral will include $147.3 million in well-seasoned loans that were part of HESAA’s 2009 issuance, as well as up to $155 million in new loans that the trust will originate through an Oct. 31, 2020 prefunding and recycling period for the next academic calendar year.

After years of expansion as a public company, Ellie Mae went private and cut 10% of its workforce. But new ways to grow lie ahead, according to CEO Jonathan Corr.

S&P Global Ratings reports that cumulative loss levels on collateralized portfolios of subprime auto loans fell to 7.11% in March, compared to 8.67% in February. That figure was also down from 7.61% in March 2018, and the lowest since 2016.

Kathy Kraninger, the bureau's director, is in a standoff with Democrats about her claim that the agency cannot supervise institutions under the Military Lending Act.

The two agencies offer fundamentally different views of the level of risk in ABS issuances by Avant, Prosper Marketplace, LendingClub and other online lenders.