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.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s involvement in the single-family rental market may have been short-lived, but it still had a positive effective, according to Beth O’Brien, CEO of CoreVest.

Three of the loans backing the $868.4 million BSPRT 2018-FL4 representing 18.4% of the collateral are either still under construction or have yet to be redeveloped, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Auto loan securitization has been in overdrive this year, even if the global tussle over import tariffs is injecting a note of caution.

While banking regulators are currently looking the other way when corporate debt packages exceed 6.0 leverage, that could easily change under a new administration or Congress.

The CEOs of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are stepping down because the job they were hired to do — return the GSEs to profitability — is done. But attracting top-flight candidates to lead the mortgage giants into a new phase may not be easy.

Look for more providers of property assessed clean energy financing for commercial buildings to follow CleanFund and Greenworks Lending into the securitization market next year.

The agency wants more information as it conducts fair-lending exams, but conflicting statutes make writing a data collection rule difficult.

Moody's sees $10.7 billion of securitized commercial mortgages at risk, Morningstar just $1.49 billion; both say loans in Freddie Mac K-deals account for a significant portion of exposure.

The private-label card issuer has expanded into co-branded Mastercard accounts with several retailers, which have higher payment rates and fewer delinquencies than cards exclusive to partnering store chains.

Whereas most regulators appointed in the Trump administration are focused on rolling back the post-crisis framework, Nellie Liang helped create it.

A new financial technology company called Scratch is planning to use a new web-based platform along with an alternative pricing model to compete with companies that service mortgages and other consumer loans.