The lawsuit against Navient Corp. demonstrates that despite the recent appointment of more industry-friendly regulators in Washington, financial services companies still face significant legal threats from state capitals.

Select Portfolio Servicing grew its mortgage servicing rights portfolio by over 14% in the second quarter by targeting opportunities in the nonagency loan market.

The new master-trust issuance of Visa and Mastercard receivables from accounts originated and serviced by the lender builds the year's bank-card ABS volume to nearly $38 billion.

After downgrading Deutsche's issuer default ratings last week, the rating agency now wants the German lender to post additional collateral to be considered an eligible swaps counterparty.

The biggest opportunity would likely come from limits to PLUS loans for parents and graduate students, something that is beyond the scope of regulators and would require congressional action.

Fitch is comfortable that payment plans with terms of over 24 months are not being used for lower-credit obligors, as they are for some other kinds of consumer loans.

Ocwen Financial Corp. received more breathing room on the legal front as the Securities and Exchange Commission is not pursuing an enforcement action against the company regarding its debt collection practices.

The credit quality of the collateral is similar to that of the sponsor's prior deals, but there are some structural changes; the senior notes benefit from more overcollateralization, but total OC has declined.

The French specialty lender, owned by a consortium of mutual insurers, is pooling over 54,000 loans it originated and services for clients of its shareholders.

Richard Smith came to Capitol Hill this week to speak about the massive breach at Equifax, but it was clear Tuesday that he will be defending the entire credit reporting industry.

Though FHFA Director Mel Watt stopped short of saying he would break with a Treasury agreement that forces all profits of the GSEs to go to the government, he emphasized that it couldn’t continue indefinitely.

BMO is part of a trend-setting 2017 parade of Canadian auto lenders pooling their loan, lease and dealer floorplan receivables to the U.S. investor market.