Finance

The return of the higher-for-longer mantra is a headache for insurance companies and pension plans which, flush with cash, sent demand for bonds soaring this year.

McCargo stabilized the agency at a crucial time as she helped navigate it through both a pandemic and subsequent dramatic interest-rate cycle change.

With a high proportion of fixed-rate, interest-only underlying loans, the notes have almost no amortization, and three CRE loans have standalone, investment-grade opinions.

The fixed-rate loans are divided into three sub-pools that relied on rating methods from the RMBS, CMBS and ABS sectors to assess their risks.

The portfolio does not have any meaningful originations that have completed a full repayment cycle, making the company's performance data thin.

The venture, dubbed Sculptor Loan Financing Partners, will manage investments in the equity tranches of Sculptor's own CLOs in the U.S. and Europe.

Formerly of Wells Fargo, she will coordinate several key units to create a structure for a sustained capital markets program that capitalizes on recent innovation and growth in home equity finance.

The Structured Finance Association questions whether funding closed-end seconds is an appropriate role for the government-sponsored enterprise, while newer lenders welcome the liquidity support.

The bank is a top auto lender, with a managed portfolio of $7.1 million through December 2023, and has a strong servicing track record.

The initial protection amount, Moody's says, is 12.5% of the total reference pool and equals the principal amount of the rated and unrated issued notes.

Net charge-offs at the Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank increased by more than 80% in the first quarter compared with a year earlier. BofA executives say that the rising losses were in line with the bank's risk appetite.

ADMT 2024-NQM2 will repay senior position investors on a pro-rata basis, while the mezzanine and subordinate notes will be repaid sequentially.

That the underlying contract holders prioritize using their smartphones and other mobile devices suggests that they are likely to prioritize payments related to those products.

Traders are no longer fully pricing in a rate cut before November, while at the start of the year, cuts beginning in March were fully priced in.

Chris Hentemann, whose fund manages $6.2 billion in assets, seeks out B-piece opportunities and foresees banks executing more bulk loan sales and credit-risk transfers.

The current levels of credit enhancement are a reduction from levels of 58.0%, 48.7%, 35.9%, 22.5% and 17% on the classes A, B, C, D and E on the BLAST 2024-1 deal.

First-quarter results at the companies were promising for other banks looking to reel in fees from capital markets activities as deposit costs put pressure on net interest income.

The financing outlook improved from recent surveys on a macro basis, but expectations around commercial real estate helped cloud over the credit forecast.

Fiber securitization backed by month-to-month residential fiber internet revenue didn't exist before 2022. Before that, there were some smaller transactions secured by long-term contracts.