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After the failure of two banks between $100 billion and $250 billion of assets, many are asking regulators to change their oversight practices for these banks. The Fed has a wide berth to make a wide array of changes.

The figures reaffirm that the Fed's quest to tame inflation will be bumpy as the economy has largely proven resilient to a year's worth of interest-rate hikes.

ARI has increased hard credit enhancement compared with previous transactions, however, which helps to the potential risk of offset negative excess spread.

Mortgage-backed securities aren't generally considered risky assets, but how SVB managed them contributed to its woes.

HPEFS 2023-1, will benefit from a 1% reserve account, and 7.40% initial overcollateralization. A cash reserve account provides liquidity to the notes.

U.S. regulators took extraordinary measures to shore up confidence in the financial system, part of a frantic weekend that saw the surprise closure of New York's Signature Bank.

The pending transaction has a class D, unlike the previous transaction, the Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust, 2023-1, and a higher cumulative net loss expectation.

A $13.5 billion advance to Silicon Valley Bank months before its collapse is another sign that the Home Loan banks encourage risk-taking that can burden the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. or even the system itself, critics say.

Moody's notes that obligors that are large enterprises or public institutions make up 82% of the discounted receivables balance.

More than half of pandemic gains have been erased, but how the mix of stronger than expected overall employment and other developments will affect rates remains uncertain.