Citigroup Insights

TD Bank, the U.S. unit of the Canadian bank, has hired Christopher Fred as its new head of U.S. credit cards and unsecured lending. The bank's retail partners include Target and Nordstrom.

Corporations are navigating shifting geopolitics, and M&A bankers are advising them as they consider selling off faraway units and focusing more on assets closer to home or in friendlier countries.

The move from Republican senators mirrors an effort launched in the House, where Citibank also provides credit cards for congressional business. Republicans will be unable to enact such changes unless they take either chamber in upcoming elections.

The underlying prime mortgages have an average balance of $358,024, a weighted average (WA) original FICO score of 776, an original cumulative loan-to-value (LTV) ratio of 73.6%.

Now the structured mortgage securities are cheap enough that CLO investors are watching them more closely, according to strategists and investors.

Agency underwritten loans accounted for 97.1% of the CMLTI 2025-1 pool, up drastically from 10.6% on the CMLTI 2024-1 series.

Fitch Rating says it noticed a greater preference for consumers to use cellphones for a longer period and previously decreased the assumptions for upgrade losses to 0.25%, from 0.35%.

Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs have also withdrawn from the Net-Zero Banking Alliance in the past month, as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office.