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This year's rapid rise in mortgage rates is cooling the U.S. housing market, leading to sales declines and pressure on home prices. Other measures put the figures above 6%.

The Cincinnati bank's new division will lend to nonbanks that make or bundle together residential mortgage loans, whose businesses have slowed as higher interest rates lower appetite for refinancing. The warehouse sector has seen "fierce competition" among banks lately, one analyst wrote.

Fitch Ratings notes that Federal Family Education Loan Program ABS is more exposed to basis risk when there is little credit enhancement and excess spread.

The cloud retail firm NewStore is an early adopter of the tech giant's iPhone payment acceptance service, which some see as a step toward eliminating dedicated checkout lanes altogether.

With the Federal Reserve and global policy makers aggressively lifting rates to rein in consumer prices, many fixed-income professionals have been confronted with the wildest volatility of their careers.

Payment suspensions on loans securitized through the government-backed market stopped falling in May, plateaued over the summer, and reversed course last month, according to an industry trade association.

The Delaware bank, which is also seeking to move its headquarters to South Dakota, says a national charter will allow it to more easily expand across the country as it builds on its banking-as-a-service business model.

SPS will have roughly 1.4 million mortgages in its portfolio after the transaction closes, something the two companies estimate will occur in the fourth quarter of this year.

Some loans in the guaranteed portfolio have adjustable-rate coupons based off of Libor, but PacWest will make the interest payments based on the SOFR index.

We're at the moment that regulators and market participants have been fearing, which is that there will be more episodes when parts of the market seized up.