Fund manager Varde Partners wants to grow its partnerships with lenders and servicers interested in selling off their excess mortgage servicing rights.

The deal, which comes just a year after the commodity trading firm's last securitization, represents 7.85% of assets in a revolving trust; it may be upsized to $500 million.

The nation's fifth-largest bank on Monday rolled out a three-month consumer loan that is far less expensive than the typical payday loan. The move comes as regulators are encouraging banks to reach out to the subprime market, which they largely abandoned.

The $300 million transaction has a six-month prefunding period during with the last $50 million of loans will be acquired; it can be actively managed for three years.

Caliber Home Loans’ next offering of subprime mortgage bonds includes a new product offered to borrowers with a stronger credit profile than its other programs – but also less equity in their homes.

Nearly a third of borrowers, 29.5%, backing the $500 million transaction are making timely payments, up from 27.4% for the prior deal and higher than the lender’s previous two deals.

TCI Capital assigned two CLO deals totaling $1 billion that it was managing for Columbia Management Investment Advisers, after Columbia resigned its subadvisory role.

Moody’s expects losses on Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2018-4 to reach 25% of the original balance over the life of the deal, down from 26% for its prior deal.

The GSE recently transferred $166 million portion of risk on $11.1 billion of loans via contracts with seven reinsurers and insurers; it plans to come to market two or three time a year going forward.

The proposal by Reps. Jeb Hensarling and John Delaney is a sign that a bipartisan consensus is building on how to move on from Fannie and Freddie.

The real estate investment trust is securitizing a $225 million mortgage on a portfolio of 10 hotels owned by Taylor Woods and Howard Wu, founders of Urban Commons.

The departing House Financial Services chair unveiled a bill with Democrat John Delaney to repeal Fannie and Freddie's charters and establish Ginnie Mae as a backstop.