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Despite the quality of the pool's underlying loans, the pool has a large proportion of investment properties, 76.7%, which are susceptible to higher default probabilities.

Two other nonbank mortgage firms also recently got in position to raise capital while NVR, a builder and lender, added new authorization for share repurchases.

The deal features a principal acceleration trigger. If breached, the transaction will divert all additional funds to paying down the principal on the notes.

The Treasury Department held a high-stakes huddle with state insurance officials to discuss risks associated with the rapid growth of private credit in the economy and whether those investments could pose systemic vulnerabilities.

The transaction comes to market with initial hard credit enhancement levels of 33.60%, 22.90%, 13.50% and 8.65% across the subordinate tranches, higher than the previous deal.

The A1 VFN tranche is a variable funding note whose proceeds can be used for general corporate purposes, including acquisitions.

The company turned a GAAP profit of $170.4 million for the quarter, with its volume and margins relatively flat compared with the fourth quarter of 2025.

An array of unnamed originators accounted for the large majority of originators in the pool, 89.3%, the rating agencies said, while Hometown Equity Mortgage originated 10.7% of the pool.

PennyMac Financial Services reported $82.3 million net income, inclusive of a $44 million net reduction related to servicing fair value and hedge losses.

Economic uncertainty weighed on risk appetite, but the current performance of the non-QM market is "durable," Angel Oak leaders said in an earnings call.

Kapitus funds receivables through two revolving securitizations totaling $575 million, and a $230.1 million warehouse line of credit from Truist, which matures in June 2027.

PRET 2026-RPL2 uses a sequential repayment structure, although the notes will not advance any principal and interest from delinquent loans.

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.