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Commercial and multifamily mortgage debt outstanding grew $44.3 billion during the first three months of 2018, the largest first-quarter gain since before the Great Recession, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s bulletin is seen as just one piece of the regulatory puzzle to coax banks into installment lending.

That's a departure from the state student loan authority's previous offering, completed in 2017, which was backed by a mix of private and federally guaranteed student loans, and was rated one notch lower by S&P Global Ratings.

Commercial real estate is their bread and butter, but many banks are scaling back in this vital loan category. Here’s why.

Nelnet’s planned bank would be an online enterprise focused on gathering deposits and making private student loans.

The notes, which are rated by DBRS, are backed by a mix of products to borrowers with weak credit; the pool of collateral will revolve over the first two years of the transaction.

Attorneys general from 21 states say the measures would undermine their ability to enforce consumer protection laws.

Instead of shrinking the GSEs, the housing regulator is letting them expand into a host of new products and programs.

Richard Sandor has been called the father of futures trading and carbon trading. His latest passion is a fledgling reference rate that is being used by a collection of small U.S. banks to price wholesale interbank financing.

The deal, which is expected to close this summer, would bring THL Credit’s assets in collateralized loan obligations under management to approximately $12 billion and its total assets under management to over $15.5 billion.