Finance

Upstart is disputing an analysis accusing it of discriminating against prospective borrowers based on the college they attended, saying it contains “inaccuracies and misunderstandings.”

According to presale reports on Flagship’s $355 million auto-loan securitization, the subprime auto lender is removing the 2% collateral pool limit on loans over six years (72 months) that can be added during a three-month prefunding period for Flagship Auto Credit Trust 2020-1.

The lease deal – Santander’s sixth ABS of Chrysler Capital leases since 2017 – has a higher proportion of leases with original terms longer than 36 months (44.5%) than prior deals through the platform.

The regulator said the investment bank and financial services company will help in the process of strengthening Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s capital standing for their eventual exit from conservatorship.

The data management and analytics firm has tapped Craig Phillips, a former top aide to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, as a senior adviser for the five-year-old firm’s business and product development activities in the mortgage loan space.

Toyota Motor Credit Co. is sponsoring a $1.25 billion loan-backed transaction (potentially upsized to $1.75 billion), while regional Toyota captive finance lender World Omni Finance Corp. is sponsoring an auto-lease deal at either $766.5 million or $962.9 million.

Sallie's first student-loan securitization of the year comes a week after SLM Corp. announced plans to sell more loans from its portfolio to fund a share buyback program.

In another rollback of the bank trading ban, the federal agencies unveiled a plan to allow financial institutions to invest in multiple companies through certain fund structures.

Loans made for Fiat Chrysler represented the largest chunk of Santander Consumer's lending in the fourth quarter, and Mahesh Aditya said their relationship is his top priority.

Clarion Partners will tap the CMBS market to help finance a multiyear renovation of older Courtyard by Marriott-branded hotel properties it co-owns through a joint venture.

Historically low interest rates, low unemployment and positive yet slowing economic growth will support stable U.S. structured finance asset performance in 2020.

The six bills championed by Democrats aim to reduce consumer burdens and provide opportunities for borrowers to rehabilitate their credit, but the legislation has garnered no Republican support.

Flasgstar Bancorp's mixed results in its fourth-quarter earnings report are a sign strategic shifts it made to make its earnings less volatile are working.

The loan participation is part of a debt refinancing package that paves the way for expanding the Parkmerced mega-development.

The Justice Department had issued subpoenas in 2014 and 2015 to GLS and other subprime lenders regarding underwriting criteria for lending as well as representations and warranties for loans being securitized, according to Kroll.

Regulators already finalized a rollback of the proprietary trading ban section of the rule but signaled then that their overhaul was not finished.

Trade associations representing mortgage lenders and securities market participants are asking the Federal Housing Finance Agency to rethink a plan to restrict pooling options for loans sold into uniform mortgage-backed securities.

Treasure Island Hotel & Casino is the latest Las Vegas casino tapping the commercial-mortgage securitization market as it winds up a multi-year, exhaustive renovation program.

Natixis will be marketing bonds as well loan-specific certificates tied to a $160 million first-mortgage taken secured by an Amazon headquarters building in Seattle, and a $92.5 million loan backed by a newly built addition to NYC's sprawling Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center campus.

The newly acquired industrial portfolio of transportation centers in major markets adds to Blackstone's global holdings of logistics properties in major transit hubs.