First Foundation sold loans to Freddie Mac to free up space for higher-yielding credits. It then bought the securities that were formed to replace other, lower-yielding assets through an often overlooked program.

Similar to estimates published by Moody's and Morningstar, the data provider reckons that more than half of the loans are securitized by Fannie, Freddie or Ginnie.

The spread on the AAA rated notes issued by KKR 23 CLO is unchanged from the manager's prior deal, but three of four subordinate tranches are priced wider than the June transaction.

The initial collateral for J.G. Wentworth XLII Series 2018-2 is 97.4% structured settlements, up from 96.6% for the prior deal and the highest concentration of any deal over the past five years.

At least six Trump administration picks to fill financial posts are still pending, but the bitterly partisan divide over Judge Brett Kavanaugh has taken up most of the energy in Congress.

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.