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The announcement by the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ends months of speculation about how long he planned to stay at the agency.

The securitization market is weathering risk retention and rising interest rates, though Fitch Ratings is keeping its eye on some consumer asset classes as the credit cycle lengthens.

Benefit Street Partners is securitizing 20 short-term commercial real estate loans it originated or acquired for transitional properties currently with unstable cash flow.

The House approved a five-year extension of the National Flood Insurance Program on Tuesday, but it remains unclear whether the Senate will seek to pursue its own bill. The program is due to expire Dec. 8.

More stringent underwriting is the likely reason banks and credit unions are seeing relatively low levels of delinquencies on car loans to high-risk borrowers.

A total of 191 properties, or 11.4% of the 1,598 in the pool, were previously securitized in transactions completed in 2014 and 2015 and repaid using a portion of the proceeds from a 2016 transaction.

Juniper Receiveables DAC, a new offshore shelf for Ally U.S. auto-loan receivables, has received an early 'Baa3' rating from Moody's Investors Service on its initial $530 million issuance.

The largest loan is for the first phase of State Farm’s two-year-old Park Center Phase 1 office tower complex that the firm constructed in Dunwoody, Ga.

The $785 million transaction, 2017-C41, is backed by a pool of 52 loans with an average balance of just $15.1 million, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency; retail, hotel and office properties dominate the mix.

The regulatory relief bill would raise the SIFI threshold to $250 billion of assets and allow mortgages held in portfolio to be counted as "qualified," among other items, but it is far less sweeping than institutions had hoped.