Finance

Borrowers in the pool had a non-zero weighted average credit score of 608, with a 112.12% loan-to-value (LTV) ratio.

The notes are expected to pay coupons including 5.00% on the A6 through A30 tranches of notes, and 6.13% on the B1 through B6 notes.

The weighted average, base-case annualized gross loss declined from 11.78%, from 11.86%, because of minor changes in its assumptions of pool segment defaults.

The whole business deal, built around a master trust structure, will be repaid primarily from franchise royalty revenue.

The government-sponsored enterprise recorded $98.7 billion in single-family loan acquisitions to begin the year, including over $43 billion in refinances.

The three class A notes, A1, A2 and A3, of GCAR 2026-2 notes will all benefit from hard credit enhancement levels, plus haircut to excess spread of 56.07%.

Irrespective of the transaction's trigger status, PRKCM 2026-AFC3 will pay the A-1FCF first, until its balance is reduced to zero, and then to the A-1LCF until it is paid down.

The Federal Open Market Committee's April meeting — likely Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's last — is unanimously expected to keep interest rates steady, but questions about energy, inflation and the upcoming transition in leadership still loom.

Bank statement underwriting, often applied in situations where the borrower is self-employed, accounted for the plurality of documentation types in the pool, at 44.9%.

The deal saw notable changes from SCLP 2021-1, especially an increase in target and initial overcollateralization.

Tower Point Capital, the deal's manager, is considered to have one of the largest privately held wireless infrastructure portfolios in the U.S.

Non-qualified loans are the majority of loans in the pool, 59.2%, while loans exempt from the Ability-to-Repay/Qualified Mortgage rule, represent 35.9%.

February's securitization from Vertical Bridge was the sector's largest-ever deal and included the sector's first single-B rated tranche.

A decline in Middle East travel and higher fuel prices should not put a major dent in the company's performance, execs said Thursday.

Any additional securities that the transaction issues will rank equally with the class that has the same class designation.

Initially, the transaction will follow a sequential repayment structure that requires each note class to reach a required overcollateralization percentage before the next subordinate class begins receiving principal.

Notes will be backed by royalties from a music catalog containing more than 3,750 works from top artists and songwriters, including Diplo and ZZ Top.

Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf said bankers and economists are broadly against lowering interest rates now, given uncertainty from the Iran war.

Mpower's plan to sell nearly $250 million of bonds hit a hurdle after some potential investors spooked by Trump's policy shifts balked during the effort's early pitches.

A five-year-loan is financing Lyrik, a 495,275-square-foot, 20-story office tower, plus 38,012 square feet of retail space in Boston's Back Bay area, a premiere office submarket.