Four new repriced portfolios from BlueMountain, CIFC, GoldenTree and HPS each exceeded 10x debt-to-equity ratio, compared to a three-month prior average of 9.16x on S&P rated deals.

Zephyrus, which is owned by Virgo Investment Group (98%) and Seabury (2%), is marketing $336.6 million of fixed-rate loans with a final maturity of 2038 and a preliminary A rating from Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac issued new capital requirements for private mortgage insurers that will create big swings in carriers' asset reserves.

Fitch and S&P recently trimmed default expectations for payment plans of customers with various tenures; this allows the carrier to offer less credit enhancement on its next securitization; Moody's is also rating the deal for the first time.

Over three-quarters of loans in the €861.3 million transaction are loans in which borrowers are scheduled to repay almost half the principal in its final installment.

The £571.6 million Elvet Mortgages 2018-1 is the first mortgage bond offering rated by Moody's Investors Service to include loans that were originated using a mobile phone application.

Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration sent letters Wednesday to 20 nonbank lenders that charge triple-digit annual percentage rates to try to determine if their use of online referrals is steering borrowers into larger loans than they want or need.

The House of Representatives passed two bills that would tie appraisal waivers for Small Business Administration loans to bank rules for commercial real estate loans, despite objections from the Appraisal Institute about its members being cut out of transactions.

It can be a more efficient way to raise regulatory capital than relying solely on equity, but lenders that securitize this debt have struggled to get the market back off the ground.

Nearly 72% of attendees said their institutions were either only going to get involved “at the appropriate time” or “let the market figure out” how to move to a new benchmark.

The bank seeks to answer the threat posed by disruptors with quick online loans and a card that rewards small businesses for more kinds of spending.

Florence's flooding and wind destruction affected about 700,000 residential and commercial properties across North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, according to CoreLogic's latest estimates.