Finance

Shizuoka Bank Ltd. plans to step up its search for yield by buying more U.S. collateralized loan obligations, according to its top executive.

From product-specific variations in refinancing rates to pockets of depreciation in an otherwise healthy market, here are some details in housing-related data that highlight important underlying trends in the mortgage business.

The two deals continue a late-year surge of private-label RMBS deal volume totaling $8.37 billion priced since Oct. 1.

The former head of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight explains why he thinks the mortgage industry is closer than ever to having a truly paperless process, and weighs in on GSE reform.

Nationstar’s next securitization of defaulted or inactive home equity conversion mortgages will have a higher-than-average exposure to properties with steep leverage, as well as ties to judicial foreclosure states.

Blackstone Real Estate Partners is securitizing a new $343 million commercial mortgage that financed the parent firm’s recent acquisition of a portfolio of Southern California apartments.

Octane Receivables Trust 2019-1 is a $210.9 million transaction involving fixed-rate loans to prime and non-prime borrowers financing the purchase of all-terrain and utility-task vehicles, as well as dirt bikes, motorcycles, mowers, tractors, snowmobiles and personal watercraft.

Tesla’s sponsorship of the $940.95 million Tesla Auto Lease Trust 2019-A comes as the battery-electric vehicle (BEV) manufacturer has regained its footing with a surprise third-quarter profit and overcome recent manufacturing woes on its mass-market Model 3 vehicle.

Santander Revolving Auto Loan Trust 2019-A is the debut deal on Santander’s revolving platform (or SREV, according to presale reports), and will have a five-year period in which the lender can add additional loans to the collateral

Lenders have bundled more than $18 billion worth of non-QM, private-label loans into bonds this year that they then sold to investors, a 44% increase from 2018 and the most for any year since the securities became common post-crisis.

New proposed securitizations from American Honda and Ford Motor Credit, plus a U.S.-dollar denominated ABS transaction sponsored by Scotiabank, will push total securitization volume of prime auto ABS to nearly $52 billion - the highest yearly volume in the sector in seven years.

Banks and lenders have made inroads in analytics and automation with machine-learning technology. Will asset management follow suit?

The sponsors of the Class A structure, deemed a “trophy asset” by Kroll Bond Rating Agency, are placing $825 million of a $1.2 billion whole loan into a transaction dubbed CPTS 2019-CPT.

The dollar volume of mortgages guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs rose nearly 9% in the past fiscal year as interest-rate reduction refinancing loans surged nearly 75%.

According to presale reports, Mercedes-Benz Auto Lease Trust (MBALT) 2019-B will have only two months over the life of the deal in which there is more than a 5% concentration of expected lease maturities.

Loss expectations are up slightly for the second retail auto lease securitization of the year for RAC King the parent company of the regional “buy here/pay here” used-car chain American Car Center.

According to ratings agency presale reports, the $398.7 million Flagship Credit Auto Trust 2019-4 includes a 23% share of collateral loans originated through the company’s growing dCarFinance.com direct financing channel.

An increase in credit risk transfer activity since 2015 signifies a sea change for private mortgage insurers that may be about to intensify, according to an industry trade group.

Instead of marketing securities backed by commercial property mortgages, STORE Capital chooses the more esoteric option of securitizing the income from its triple-net leases – a similar strategy to REITS such Spirit Realty Capital and SCP Financial.

Sixty percent of the loans were underwritten with just 12- or 24-month bank statements, according to ratings agency reports.