Finance

The second-lien loans face low recovery post-default, especially if home prices drop.

But the Federal Housing Administration program was the only mortgage loan type to gain market share month-to-month as measured by rate lock percentage.

Public-finance repair should be prioritized before alarm among bond investors takes hold, the Bank for International Settlements said.

More than 90% of the loans were underwritten without full documentation, raising default probability.

Top retail-mall owner Taubman has approached the market with a $1 billion CMBS deal to refinance the existing debt that is collateralized by one of the highest volume shopping centers in the U.S.

Valverde, who has a wide range of experience in capital markets and housing finance, will join the government-sponsored enterprise's single-family unit.

The average cost for a loan seller to buy back a mortgage from Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac for defects is over $32,000, a study from Reggora and Stratmor found.

EBRD plans to transfer part of the risk tied to roughly $1 billion of private-sector loans to a group of pension funds and asset managers.

Underwriting methods have been steadily shifting to traditional full documentation, which accounts for 13.3% in the VERUS 2024-9, KBRA said, its largest share since VERUS 2024-6.

The group is calling for the Trump administration to preserve certain features if it picks up where it left off and finishes cutting ties to the Treasury.

Notes will repay investors through a modified sequential-payment structure. Senior notes will repay on a pro rata basis. Otherwise, the principal classes will repay principal until the balance in the senior classes equal zero.

Moody's says its cumulative net loss expectation for the PFAST 2024-1 pool is 0.70%, and puts its losses on the Aaa stress level at 4.75%.

HPS founders Scott Kapnick, Scot French and Michael Patterson will lead a new private financing solutions business unit with BlackRock as the company seeks to offer the full range of public fixed-income and alternative credit funds.

Small Business Act 7(a) loans will secure the notes. Interest will be repaid through subordination and interest will be repaid on a pro rata basis.

Amid challenging times for loans in CLOs, Sculptor Capital Management sees refi and reset surge likely to continue well into 2025.

The renewables firm also plans to raise as much as $500 million by February via banks or a private placement in the offshore market.

Catastrophe bonds come with risk and unique advantages as some call the asset class "the holy grail" of investments.

The economist, who runs Roubini Macro Associates, is positioning for a curve steepener, a popular Treasuries trade where the gap between long- and short-dated yields widens.

The market expects 5.2% yields on the AAA-rated tranche, slightly tighter than the 5.1% seen on the AAA-rated notes on an earlier deal, the Affirm Asset Securitization Trust, 2024-B series.

There is a three-year revolving period when the transaction will not make any principal payments to the notes unless an early amortization event occurs.