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While the balance of newly delinquent loans fell by 50% from November, the ratings agency warned that many borrowers will likely struggle to bring loans current under ongoing pandemic conditions.

Reports indicate distressed owners would rather surrender their hotel or retail properties instead of negotiate workouts on delinquent loans as the pandemic spread carries on.

Bausch, formerly Valeant Pharmaceuticals, has paid down more than $24 billion of the $32 billion in leverage it owed five years ago from a debt-driven acquisition spree — which ended after a drug-pricing scandal.

The agency cited improving used-car prices that have elevated resale values of off-lease vehicles that drivers are turning back into dealerships.

The reference pools of mortgages supporting the credit-risk transfer notes sold by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were 'generally lower' in delinquencies per newly issued monthly reports, says DBRS Morningstar.

The former property-assessed clean energy program administrator plans to sell off assets via Chapter 11, but PACE securitizations through its bankruptcy-remote trusts will continue to be backed by homeowner ad valorem assessments.

The three-year loan will boost the hotel-centered REIT's dwindling cash reserves battered by the COVID-19 global impact on travel.

The nonbank lender is co-sponsoring a $258.4 million residential mortgage pool comprised entirely of wealthy borrowers with 15-year term contracts.

Downgrades applied to deals sponsored by Carlyle Aviation and Avolon Aerospace reflect the continued deterioration of airline credit quality and aircraft values afflicting nearly all issuers, the ratings agency reported.

The $425 million loan securitization is among two single-asset, commercial-mortgage deals launching this week. Brookfield Asset Management's global real estate arm is also tapping investors to finance an $825 million loan backed by a downtown Manhattan office building.

The pool of 359 loans also on average carry higher balances (over $900,000) compared to the REIT's earlier pass-through deal this year.

Delinquencies and defaults are at or near historic lows as tracked by Fitch, while rising monthly payment rates show consumers are increasingly paying down balances.

The new revolving platform will allow the credit-card issuer to periodically assign new accounts into the existing collateral pool without having to establish a new trust for each issuance.

HomeEquity will sell an as-yet undetermined volume of notes to finance forthcoming originations by the bank sponsored by Birch Hill Equity Partners Management.

The single-family, duplex and multi-unit condo properties have an average age of 60 years, more than double the age of other rated SFR securitizations.

Risk premiums for new transactions, which package and sell leveraged loans into tranches of varying risk and potential return, have tightened to pre-pandemic levels and Wall Street predicts a rise in sales in 2021.

The third-quarter forbearance rate of the refinanced private student loans fell to 2.58% from the 8.36% average during the second quarter of the year – which is an approximate 70% decline.

Deals, trends and research in structured finance and asset-backed securities for the week of Nov. 28-Dec. 3

The transaction involving 345 high-balance mortgages is just the third sponsored by Morgan Stanley's mortgage acquisition and trading arm since the financial crisis more than a decade ago.

The $310.47 million GLS Auto Receivables Issuer Trust 2020-4 collateralizes 13,316 loans with an average borrower FICO of 573. That is lower subprime territory, but is slightly higher than any of GLS’ most recent securitizations, according to a report from DBRS Morningstar.