Finance

A two-year-old lawsuit by the CFPB may be languishing, but nine members of the Teachers Federation of America sued the student loan servicing giant alleging that it misled borrowers in public service professions in order to line its pockets.

FASST 2018-1 has a lower weighted average loan-to-value ratio than prior deals by either the sponsor or rival Nationstar; this lessens the risk of loss, though liquidation timelines may be longer.

The $226.5 million transaction looks very similar to the previous one; the heaviest concentration of receivables is long-haul trucks (23.3%), followed by trailers (21.2%), heavy equipment (11.9%) and short-haul trucks (9.3%).

Two of the three largest loans in the $951 million deal are $50 million slices of loans on the Aventura Mall in Florida and the Christiana Mall in Delaware.

A growing number of asset managers are waking up to the opportunity to lend to small and medium-sized companies, and much of this direct lending is making its way into the securitization market.

The four-year-old transaction is still in its original reinvestment period, but the collateral has had growing levels of defaulted and triple-C rated assets.

Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust obtained a $257 million mortgage from Barclays on 17 hotels with a total of 2,189 rooms across seven states; it still has $177 million of equity in the properties.

First Foundation sold loans to Freddie Mac to free up space for higher-yielding credits. It then bought the securities that were formed to replace other, lower-yielding assets through an often overlooked program.

Similar to estimates published by Moody's and Morningstar, the data provider reckons that more than half of the loans are securitized by Fannie, Freddie or Ginnie.

The spread on the AAA rated notes issued by KKR 23 CLO is unchanged from the manager's prior deal, but three of four subordinate tranches are priced wider than the June transaction.

The initial collateral for J.G. Wentworth XLII Series 2018-2 is 97.4% structured settlements, up from 96.6% for the prior deal and the highest concentration of any deal over the past five years.

Four new repriced portfolios from BlueMountain, CIFC, GoldenTree and HPS each exceeded 10x debt-to-equity ratio, compared to a three-month prior average of 9.16x on S&P rated deals.

Zephyrus, which is owned by Virgo Investment Group (98%) and Seabury (2%), is marketing $336.6 million of fixed-rate loans with a final maturity of 2038 and a preliminary A rating from Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Fitch and S&P recently trimmed default expectations for payment plans of customers with various tenures; this allows the carrier to offer less credit enhancement on its next securitization; Moody's is also rating the deal for the first time.

Over three-quarters of loans in the €861.3 million transaction are loans in which borrowers are scheduled to repay almost half the principal in its final installment.

The £571.6 million Elvet Mortgages 2018-1 is the first mortgage bond offering rated by Moody's Investors Service to include loans that were originated using a mobile phone application.

It can be a more efficient way to raise regulatory capital than relying solely on equity, but lenders that securitize this debt have struggled to get the market back off the ground.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s involvement in the single-family rental market may have been short-lived, but it still had a positive effective, according to Beth O’Brien, CEO of CoreVest.

Corevest CEO Beth O'Brien says that Fannie and Freddie's involvement in the single-family rental market both generated buzz and produced standardized documentation.

Three of the loans backing the $868.4 million BSPRT 2018-FL4 representing 18.4% of the collateral are either still under construction or have yet to be redeveloped, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.