The Metris Companies announced an agreement with MBIA to ensure the credit card issuer has access to the ABS market over the next two years. The financial guarantor pledged $1.7 billion over the next two years to back any refinancing of maturing ABS commitments. This comes in the wake of Metris' defeasement of ABS as they come due (see ASR 3/8/04).
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Formerly of Wells Fargo, she will coordinate several key units to create a structure for a sustained capital markets program that capitalizes on recent innovation and growth in home equity finance.
The Structured Finance Association questions whether funding closed-end seconds is an appropriate role for the government-sponsored enterprise, while newer lenders welcome the liquidity support.
The CFPB has dissolved the Office of Supervision, Enforcement and Fair Lending and eliminated the job of associate director in a move that impacts how it designates nonbanks for supervision.
The bank is a top auto lender, with a managed portfolio of $7.1 million through December 2023, and has a strong servicing track record.
The initial protection amount, Moody's says, is 12.5% of the total reference pool and equals the principal amount of the rated and unrated issued notes.
Net charge-offs at the Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank increased by more than 80% in the first quarter compared with a year earlier. BofA executives say that the rising losses were in line with the bank's risk appetite.
