The move convinced Kroll Bond Rating Agency to upgrade $95 million of securities, some of which had been under review for a possible downgrade for over a year; Kroll affirmed the ratings of another $63 million of bonds.

The deal could put downward pressure on market lease rates and renewals in wireless tower ABS portfolios serviced by Crown Castle, American Tower, and SBA Communications.

The Spanish bank's German retail lending unit is securitizing a fifth pool of mostly unsecured personal loans from an €83.5 billion portfolio.

The vast majority of default servicing professionals are investing in "significant" REO property improvements to increase resale values in a hot housing market.

The measure assigns the CFPB the task of developing ability-to-pay standards for financing repaid through local tax assessments; it has the support of both the PACE industry as well as mortgage bankers and Realtors.

Fed researchers purported to show that consumers who use peer-to-peer loans have bad financial outcomes, but questions quickly emerged about the data they used.

CBAM Asset Management's $1B CBAM 2017-4 is not its largest deal among the four BSL portfolios it has issued in less than eight months; but the latest transaction is still almost double the average peer CLO deal size of $511 million since the third quarter.

The jump is from a very low base; absolutely delinquency rates on mortgages referenced in GSE credit risk transfer deals are still likely to remain under 1% and much of the effect is likely to be temporary.

The San Francisco company said Friday that it has terminated Franklin Codel, effective immediately, over an interaction he had with a former employee regarding that employee's termination.

The FHFA is allowing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to invest in the credits for the first time since they entered conservatorship. Its purpose is to promote affordable housing in underserved markets.

The properties have a total of 1,228 rooms, or "keys" located across four major U.S. cities: San Francisco (346 keys; 39.4% of allocated loan amount), Chicago (429 keys; 26.4%), Boston (178 keys; 18.2%) and Philadelphia (275 keys; 16%).

The two prospective pools of loans have nearly identical average FICO scores (769 for the $1 billion pool, 770 for the $1.25 billion) and weight average APR (2.13% and 2.11%, respectively).