Finance

The $502 million Diamond CLO represents the first securitization of small/medium enterprise loans since Blackstone in the second quarter relaunched a direct lending business.

The transaction comes with a bigger prefunding account than the sponsor's prior deal, completed in 2015; the collateral is also more geographically diverse.

New investor appetite for mortgages over $1 million is motivating more nonbank lenders to offer super jumbo loans, often with weaker credit terms than traditional banks.

The expiration of Annaly Capital Management's offer to purchase MTGE Investment Corp. was delayed until Sept. 7 so the two real estate investment trusts have more time to satisfy deal conditions.

SUVs account for 41.3% of receivables backing HAROT 2018-3; that's up from 37.9% of Honda's prior deal and the first time exposure has increased since early 2017.

Similar to the sponsor's prior transaction, however, the collateral includes a large portion of loans underwritten using bank statements to verify borrower income: 49%.

Once refinanced, the $406 million Park Avenue Institutional Advisors CLO 2016-1 will be non-callable for two years and can be actively managed for up to five years.

The $449.2 million Carlyle Direct Lending CLO 2015-1R is the 11th deal the global alternative asset manager has refinanced this year.

Partly for this reason, Kroll expects losses on the transaction, PMIT 2018-2, to reach just 12.4% over the life of the deal, down from 13.4% for the previous transaction.

The new policy, meant to assist borrowers in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, will let servicers evaluate borrowers using pre-disaster payment information.

Execs at both closed-end funds say expectations for an eventual rise in defaults are driving their strategy to extend reinvestment periods on CLOs in their portfolios.

The investors initially won the right to sue as a group in 2015 before an appeals court reversed the ruling; the $13 billion lawsuit can now proceed as a class action.

The single-loan securitization is through Morgan Stanley on suburban properties mostly concentrated in the Washington, D.C., area.

TPG Capital is including its newly acquired first-lien interest in a Microsoft-leased office campus in Redmond, Wash., in a portfolio of suburban office properties it is financing through a new two-year commercial loan.

Westlake increased the size of all eight classes of notes by at least 37% as investor demand surges for subprime ABS paper

Judges say a CashCall loan may have fit the state’s definition of an “unconscionable” interest rate.

It bothered Jeannie Tarkenton, founder of Funding University, that too many kids from lower-income families didn't graduate because they lacked just a few thousand dollars and couldn't get a loan.

The distressed-debt manager now manages 26 U.S. CLOs totaling $15.5 billion, the most of any domestic CLO market manager.

S&P has lowered default expectations for the $300 million of Series 2018-1 transaction, allowing the sponsor to achieve an AAA, up from A on the previous deal; Kroll is not rating the new deal.

Proceeds will be used to repay its $1.29 billion whole business securitization completed in 2014; the new transaction will boost leverage to 5.9X from 5.7x.