The Dallas consumer lender says it plans to boost subprime originations again after retooling its portfolio and taking stock of the economy.

The tighter spreads on the fintech student lender's latest securitization should help offset a rise in the underlying benchmark rates, keeping its funding costs low — and helping it compete more effectively.

The unwinding and rebuilding of the struggling portfolios of Fifth Street's business development companies could take two to three years, Oaktree management stated in an earnings call Thursday.

Nearly 1.4 million residential properties were vacant as of the end of the third quarter, representing 1.58% of all U.S. residential properties, according to Attom Data Solutions.

The deal, known as Bayview Opportunity Master Fund IVb Trust 2017-RT6, pools 2,745 current loans, of which nearly 58% have been clean for at least two years, and 55.2% have been modified.

Neuberger Berman Loan Advisors CLO 26 builds the Dallas-based manager's assets under management to $5.5 billion.

A $3.8 billion surge in deposits in the third quarter will allow the subprime lender more flexibility to fund originations on balance sheet, rather than bundling these assets into collateral for bonds.

While the company still relies heavily on sales of solar panels, these purchases are now funded by third-party lenders, rather than in-house.

The hurricanes destroyed hundreds of thousands of cars, and banks are significantly boosting their reserves in anticipation of higher defaults on auto loans. But there is also a silver lining for auto lenders.

The company is lending less and issuing smaller securitizations this year, but investors keep flocking to the subprime lender's paper.

The captive finance arm of General Motors has been pulling back on leasing, but it still expects to be negatively impacted by falling used car prices for the remainder of the year.

As more loans go bad across the credit card industry, the Riverwoods, Ill.-based company boosted its provision for loan losses by 51%.