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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The $755.5 million mortgage-backed securities deal will fund a range of properties, but large-balance loans represent 42% of the collateral pool's balance.
December 12 -
Loans with FICO scores less than 680 make up a smaller percentage of the pool, at 13.0%, compared with 18.2% for the Mosaic 2022-2.
December 9 -
Early amortization triggers and the use of cross-currency swaps will support the timely repayment of notes on the hybrid private and rule 144a deal.
December 8 -
More recent OMFIT securitizations have experienced increasing 30+ delinquencies as well as annualized net loss rates.
December 7 -
The notes also face a credit challenge because there is no mandatory repurchase of modified loans.
December 6 -
The deal also differs from other bank-sponsored, CLN transactions in that the rating agency will not limit the ratings to SBNA's long-term counterparty risk rating.
December 5 -
All of the loans must be fixed rate, and at least 90% of the loan balances must be to borrowers with a cosigner.
December 2 -
Securitization production for 2022 is expected to experience a 13% decrease compared with 2021, and the declining trend is expected to continue for 2023.
December 1 -
Members of the Brazos Electric Power Cooperative seek to recoup cost outlays from the fallout of Winter Storm Uri in 2021 the latest Texas utility to do so.
December 1 -
The right to collect a tariff from some 650,000 retail electricity service customers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area will secure the ratepayer backed bonds.
November 29 -
For hotel mortgage-backed securities, Fitch expects a better outlook, with the 2023 delinquency rate not expected to return to its pandemic peak of 18.4%.
November 29 -
Should Exeter Finance fail to uphold its obligations as servicer, then Citibank will step in as the deal's backup servicer.
November 28 -
After its foray into entity, framework and instrument ESG ratings, Fitch will offer ratings on a range of structured notes including solar ABS, RMBS and CMBS.
November 28 -
Kapitus will issue expandable term notes, where at any time during the revolving period it has the ability to issue additional notes, up to $500 million.
November 23 -
The uptick in cash balances might indicate the challenges issuers are facing originating new loans for reinvestment in commercial real estate CLOs.
November 22 -
Over time, the receivables that have FICO scores greater than 720 have continued to rise steadily, while receivables with scores of less than 660 have declined.
November 21 -
Imperial Fund Mortgage looks to raise $322.8 million, on a diverse portfolio of fixed-rate mortgages Most of the loans in the pool, 56.4%, are not subject to the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's (CFPB) Ability to Repay Rule, and virtually all are fixed-rate.
November 18 -
The transaction will devote proceeds to cover costs incurred from the February 2021 winter storm's fallout.
November 17 -
MFCCMT 2022-3 includes a 12-month revolving period where no principal payments are made on the notes, except in the event of an early amortization.
November 15 -
Aspects of the deal generally align with recent ones, including—on a weighted average (WA) basis—an original maturity of 64.3 months and seasoning of 9.7 months.
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