Finance

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin vetoed legislation Friday that would have expanded high-cost consumer lending in the Sooner State.

While proposed corporate tax cuts by the Trump administration would largely be good for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, they would be required to make an initial adjustment that could force a draw from their line of credit with the Treasury Department.

A combination of attractive financing and more plentiful supply of collateral CLO issuance to $10.2 billion in April. the highest level in nearly two years.

Lending Club, the online consumer lender whose fortunes were hurt by scandal last year, lost $29.8 million in the first quarter amid lower revenues and rising expenses.

Risk retention rules created some big hurdles to creating new collateralized loan obligations. Yet they also opened up new avenues for investing in the market, as many managers serving as fee-for-service agents were compelled to raise the capital necessary to keep “skin in the game.”

Prosper Marketplace, one of the largest U.S. online-lending platforms, notified the majority of the investors that buy its loans that it had overstated their annual returns due to a system error, a spokeswoman said.

The next single-asset CMBS to hit the market is backed by the land under an iconic Manhattan address known as the Lipstick Building.

Toyota Motor Credit, DriveTime and AmeriCredit are marketing their second securitizations of 2017; Nissan Motor Credit is selling bonds backed by floorplan receivables; Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Canada i is issuing U.S.-dollar denominated notes.

After more than two days of debate, the House Financial Services Committee on Thursday approved its sweeping Dodd-Frank Act rollback bill.

In an attempt to show it went all out to help struggling homeowners, the embattled mortgage servicer Ocwen Financial provided an unusual level of detail about foreclosures that regulators have deemed "inappropriate."

CIBC is planning to issue additional notes backed by credit-card receivables from its CARDS II Trust, according to presale reports from Fitch Ratings, DBRS and Moody’s Investors Service.

Late payments on securitized commercial mortgages rose again in April as a large amount of loans matured and borrowers were unable to make a final, balloon payment.

Navient and Nelnet, the two largest student loan servicers, avoided downgrades on some $18 billion of bonds by extending their maturities. Getting the required consents from investors would normally take ages, but recent innovations speeded the process.

The unexpectedly strong pace of collateralized loan obligation issuance in April has prompted S&P Global Ratings to increase its forecast for the year as a whole.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will continue to pursue opportunities for the government-sponsored enterprises to provide liquidity to the single-family rental market, despite opposition from mortgage and real estate industry group

Velocity Commercial Capital is launching a small-balance commercial mortgage securitization, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Ocwen Financial Corp. is in talks to sell a nearly 5% stake to its biggest client, New Residential Investment Corp., as part of a deal that would finalize a long-expected sale of mortgage servicing rights.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Monday reiterated his goal of tackling housing finance reform within the next year, an aggressive plan for resolving a matter that has long flummoxed Congress.

First Key preps its second reperforming RMBS of the year; April CLO count reaches $29.8 billion; Toyota, Nissan file plans for notes backed by auto loans and dealer inventory financing.

Hunton & Williams continues its national expansion with the arrival of corporate partner John J. Dedyo in the firm’s New York office.