Donna M. Mitchell is a financial journalist based in the New York metro area with expertise covering structured finance, commercial real estate, and wealth management. Her work has appeared in Forbes, Next Avenue, Financial Planning and National Real Estate Investor.
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In the April 2023 collection period, 60 days-plus net chargeoffs and delinquencies of rose to 2.91% and 1.26%, respectively.
July 26 -
Wilmington Trust added about 36 CLO professionals in 2022 and 2023, as its expansion in the private debt and the collateralized loan obligation market continues.
July 26 -
Compared with other tax lien transactions, PVOne 2023-1 has a much smaller initial redemption value, and has one of the lowest numbers of liens, at 9,681. Its weighted average loan-to-value (LTV) ratio is 8.8%.
July 25 -
Scores between 601-650 account for 72.02% of the FICO distribution on FCRT 2023-1, compared with 46.65% on the FCRT 2023-1, according to KBRA.
July 25 -
With 24 sponsors, the collateral pool comprises mostly full-term interest-only loans, 97.4%. Otherwise, amortizing balloons make up the next highest percentage of loans, at 2.6%.
July 24 -
Junior tranches are at the heart of the debate around whether the capital that insurers currently hold against CLOs is sufficient, and the NAIC may soon impose stiffer risk-based capital requirements.
July 12 -
Both credit card and student loan issuers made up for tepid starts to 2023 by leaping over their first-quarter production numbers, but it wasn't enough to overcome an overall slide.
July 10 -
DriveTime's latest has initial hard credit enhancement that ranges from 55.70% for the class A notes to 15.40% for the class E notes, and the company just bumped up its warehouse commitment.
July 7 -
Conning and its affiliates will retain autonomy, while using the Generali connections to extend its reach into global markets.
July 7 -
Credit enhancement is lower for all classes relative to the Sierra Timeshare 2023-1, except for class C, and that was because of lower overcollateralization and lower subordination.
July 6 -
Tesla features prominently in the collateral, representing 41.73% of receivables from borrowers with higher FICO scores than the overall pool.
July 5 -
A vast majority of the pool, 86.35%, consists of primary homes. Investment properties and secondary homes, meanwhile, account for 11.29% and 2.36% of the collateral.
July 3 -
Newman will develop and implement the company's asset capital strategy, and lead a team focused on Hometap's optimization, structuring, pricing and go-to-market methods for various investor segments.
June 30 -
The notes have a coupon of 7.1%, a FICO score of 728 an original cumulative loan-to-value ratio of 66.9%, and an issuer debt service coverage ratio of 1.26%.
June 30 -
Commercial and industrial customers comprised about 60% of SIGECO's electric sales, which potentially exposes the pool to volatility due to business changeable cycles.
June 29 -
The properties have a purchase price of $684.8 million, and an issuer cost basis of $744.4 million, a debt yield of 7.0%, and a debt service coverage ratio of 1.44x.
June 29 -
The current transaction is shaping up to be a smaller deal with higher quality assets, compared with the CMLTI 2022-RP4.
June 28 -
Some 23 tenants occupy the data center complex in Illinois, which accounted for 86.7% of total square footage and 86.8% of rentable power. The property has a net operating income of $62.7 million, and cap rate of 6.70%.
June 28 -
The deal has several performance triggers with cash trap reserves, senior note interest and expense reserves, and loan-to-value tests.
June 27 -
The fourth issuance of the year includes receivables from 36-month contracts, a collateral type that still has limited performance history. VSMT 2023-4 also has a 36-month revolving period.
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