Mortgage insurance companies are getting a long-awaited shot at expanding their business with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But it's shaping up to be less lucrative than they had hoped.
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Freddie Mac's credit risk transfers come with a hefty price tag, but are ultimately still worth it, according to Chief Executive Don Layton.
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Velocity Commercial Capital is marketing its second small balance commercial loan securitization of the year.
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KeyBanc Capital Markets, the investment banking arm of Cleveland-based KeyCorp, has expanded its fixed income platform with the addition of a five-person asset-backed team from BB&T Capital Markets.
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Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and Bank of America are marketing $725.6 million of commercial mortgage bonds designed to meet requirements from regulators on both sides of the Atlantic to keep skin in the game of their deals.
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Diamond Resorts is preparing its first offering of bonds backed by timeshare loans in nearly a year, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency. A lot has happened in the meantime.
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This year, industry heavyweights Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and Quicken all burst onto the digital lending scene. These big firms may have been latecomers, but their timing was still good, since they came to market amid rising doubts about many of the online lending sector's early entrants.
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Credit Suisse is marketing bonds backed by a $280 million floating-rate mortgage collateralized by 27 standalone retail properties leased to Mills Fleet Farm.
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The latest securitization of single-family rental properties by Colony American Finance is also the smallest to date for the REIT-affiliated lender. Colony American Finance 2016-2 is a securitization of 71 multi-borrower loans it originated included in a pool sized at $187.9 million, secured by mortgages of 2,717 rental units of single-, 2-4 and multi-family properties.
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Bank of California in Irvine has sold an equipment-finance business to Hanmi Financial in Los Angeles.
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Blackstone Real Estate Partners is tapping the securitization market for a cash out refinancing of The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas hotel and casino.
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The risk premium that investors demand for holding CLOs continues to decline as refinancing activity continues to dominate the new issuance, and the trend looks set to continue heading into the final two months of the year.
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A market that some Ginnie Mae issuers tap to help finance their mortgage operations has a dwindling number of investors.
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