News and Information from Asset Securitization Report

As investors and lenders explore the adoption of FICO 10T and VantageScore 4.0, setbacks and data limitations remain.

Three tranches of notes will be issued to investors, and the A2 tranche will issue the bulk of the debt, $613.7 million. Also, the notes have an anticipated repayment date of June 2031.

The delay preserves a lifeline for competing bidder United Wholesale Mortgage, which previously reached an agreement to acquire the servicer last year.

Lenders are finding better economics by placing agency loans into private-label securities, depending on the particular situation.

Also, spreads on broadly syndicated loan and middle-market CLOs widened for the second month.

The move comes about a year after rising delinquency levels prompted SBA to raise lender fees and tightened underwriting standards in its flagship 7(a) program.

Demands for new data centers account for the surge in financing, while offering portfolio diversity.

Department of Housing and Urban Development officials indicated that there are improvements in some delinquency stages and cure rates are better than expected.

Secondary market experts are split on whether the Fed's next move will be a rate decrease in 2027 or an increase, as more observers are now thinking.

Sens. Ed Markey and Ron Wyden argue that the Small Business Administration neglected to warn small firms of the risks of merchant cash advances and closed off a key "escape route" from the resulting debts.

Standard & Poor's found modeled foreclosure frequency and loss coverage to be in similar ranges as classic FICO but showed concern about potential bias.

The cumulative advance rate on the notes include range from 68.5% and 87.7% on the A1 notes and A2 and A notes, respectively.

Foreclosure filings were reported on 42,430 properties in the United States last month, down 8% from the month prior but up 18% from a year ago.

S&P sets an estimated cumulative net loss of 2.85% for the CRVNA 2026-P2 notes, unchanged from the CRVNA 2026-P1, because the collateral characteristics were unchanged.

House lawmakers modified a ban on big-money investors from purchasing single-family homes, broadening the exemptions for build-to-rent properties and eliminating requirements in a Senate version of the bill that affected investors divest their holdings.

On an end-to-end basis, the joint initiative delivers collateral without relying heavily on manual transfers as loans are settled, then transferred between institutions.

Notes will amortize sequentially to allow cash to be released to the issuing entity on a limited basis if it maintains the overcollateralization target.

Consumer Credit Portfolio II is not a securitization, but Groundfloor is known for two deferred-pay residential transition loan ABS that are paying investors higher premiums than rated RTLs.

The announcement comes following an Institutional Shareholder Services report which urges shareholders to vote no on the CrossCountry Mortgage transaction.

The Federal Housing Administration put an end to pandemic-era relief last year, triggering a 28% jump in foreclosures on FHA loans in the first quarter and an expected spike in defaults ahead.

The 90-day-plus delinquency rate on student loans hit 10.3% in the first quarter, and New York Fed researchers warn that a second wave of defaults could be coming. Evidence is mixed regarding the likely impact on other consumer-lending segments.

If principal and interest DSCR falls below 1.75x, then 50% of all excess cash flows will be deposited into the deal's cash trap reserve account.

The Mortgage Bankers Association's Mortgage Credit Availability Index declined 0.4% to 107.9 in April after reaching a three-year high in March.

The underlying asset pool is heavily concentrated in narrowbody aircraft models, mostly A320-200s, with large, in-service fleets and broad operator bases.

Despite the quality of the pool's underlying loans, the pool has a large proportion of investment properties, 76.7%, which are susceptible to higher default probabilities.

Two other nonbank mortgage firms also recently got in position to raise capital while NVR, a builder and lender, added new authorization for share repurchases.

Three senior officials say attackers will eventually breach bank defenses, and supervisors should plan for it — while U.S. regulators stay nearly silent.

Employers hired an additional 115,000 workers in April, while unemployment remained unchanged at 4.3%. Despite the positive headline figure, a spike in newly unemployed workers and a rising number of underemployed workers suggests instability under the surface.

The deal features a principal acceleration trigger. If breached, the transaction will divert all additional funds to paying down the principal on the notes.

The Treasury Department held a high-stakes huddle with state insurance officials to discuss risks associated with the rapid growth of private credit in the economy and whether those investments could pose systemic vulnerabilities.

The transaction comes to market with initial hard credit enhancement levels of 33.60%, 22.90%, 13.50% and 8.65% across the subordinate tranches, higher than the previous deal.

The 30-year fixed spiked earlier in the week, but fell as Middle East news helped to drive the 10-year Treasury yield lower by 9 basis points by Wednesday.

The percentage of investors who view the market as better than it was a year ago fell to 36% from 45% in the winter, according to a spring survey.

The A1 VFN tranche is a variable funding note whose proceeds can be used for general corporate purposes, including acquisitions.

The company turned a GAAP profit of $170.4 million for the quarter, with its volume and margins relatively flat compared with the fourth quarter of 2025.

An array of unnamed originators accounted for the large majority of originators in the pool, 89.3%, the rating agencies said, while Hometown Equity Mortgage originated 10.7% of the pool.

PennyMac Financial Services reported $82.3 million net income, inclusive of a $44 million net reduction related to servicing fair value and hedge losses.

Economic uncertainty weighed on risk appetite, but the current performance of the non-QM market is "durable," Angel Oak leaders said in an earnings call.

Kapitus funds receivables through two revolving securitizations totaling $575 million, and a $230.1 million warehouse line of credit from Truist, which matures in June 2027.

"In looking at eight currently available proprietary RM products, there is a distinct relationship between HECM growth rates and proprietary product availability," Reverse Market Insight said.

PRET 2026-RPL2 uses a sequential repayment structure, although the notes will not advance any principal and interest from delinquent loans.

An adverse, if unlikely, decision about a novel defense of lenders participating in liability management exercises could upend the leveraged loan market.

American Banker research finds that while more than 30% agree buy now/pay later is good for banks and consumers, the majority of respondents are unconvinced.

Borrowers in the pool had a non-zero weighted average credit score of 608, with a 112.12% loan-to-value (LTV) ratio.

Despite market volatility from the conflict–added to tariff impacts–credit portfolio managers see liquidity as steady, with no significant signs of stress.

The recent uptick in commercial-and-industrial lending is the result of disruption in the private credit sector, one economist argues. Bank analysts say the upheaval in private credit is one factor among many.

The notes are expected to pay coupons including 5.00% on the A6 through A30 tranches of notes, and 6.13% on the B1 through B6 notes.

The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield topped 4.4% on April 29 — its highest level since late March — as investor anxiety mounted.

The weighted average, base-case annualized gross loss declined from 11.78%, from 11.86%, because of minor changes in its assumptions of pool segment defaults.

The whole business deal, built around a master trust structure, will be repaid primarily from franchise royalty revenue.

Kevin Warsh's nomination to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve passed through the Senate Banking committee in a party-line vote.

The government-sponsored enterprise recorded $98.7 billion in single-family loan acquisitions to begin the year, including over $43 billion in refinances.

The three class A notes, A1, A2 and A3, of GCAR 2026-2 notes will all benefit from hard credit enhancement levels, plus haircut to excess spread of 56.07%.

Irrespective of the transaction's trigger status, PRKCM 2026-AFC3 will pay the A-1FCF first, until its balance is reduced to zero, and then to the A-1LCF until it is paid down.

The Federal Open Market Committee's April meeting — likely Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's last — is unanimously expected to keep interest rates steady, but questions about energy, inflation and the upcoming transition in leadership still loom.

Bank statement underwriting, often applied in situations where the borrower is self-employed, accounted for the plurality of documentation types in the pool, at 44.9%.

Alongside a bill that gives homeowners a year of forbearance after state-declared emergencies, lawmakers will consider extending wildfire-related moratoriums.

The deal saw notable changes from SCLP 2021-1, especially an increase in target and initial overcollateralization.

Fintech firm IntraFi's most recent quarterly survey of bank executives showed rising pessimism among bankers related to "instability in Washington," as well as growing concerns about technology-enabled fraud.

Tower Point Capital, the deal's manager, is considered to have one of the largest privately held wireless infrastructure portfolios in the U.S.

Delinquencies also showed signs of overall improvement in March, despite an increase in foreclosure numbers, ICE Mortgage Technology said.

A proposed update to Basel III capital rules from federal banking regulators does not specifically include mortgage insurance as a factor in determining the risk weight for a mortgage loan held on a bank's balance sheet. Industry experts say it should.

Non-qualified loans are the majority of loans in the pool, 59.2%, while loans exempt from the Ability-to-Repay/Qualified Mortgage rule, represent 35.9%.

The 30-year fixed is still over 20 basis points higher than its February bottom, but fell 7 basis points this past week on Iran peace hopes, Freddie Mac said.

February's securitization from Vertical Bridge was the sector's largest-ever deal and included the sector's first single-B rated tranche.

A decline in Middle East travel and higher fuel prices should not put a major dent in the company's performance, execs said Thursday.

Unlike some of FIGRE Trust's previous securitizations, there is no performance trigger related to the net weighted average coupon rate.

Credit risk transfers, a means by which banks can move risk off their balance sheets, earned considerable bipartisan support in a House Financial Services subcommittee hearing Wednesday.

Loans were underwritten to Fannie and Freddie guidelines, or to Ginnie Mae standards that apply to securities backed by jumbo loans ineligible for GSE pools because of their loan size.

Any additional securities that the transaction issues will rank equally with the class that has the same class designation.

The new law adds rules, including counseling requirements, which would put severe constraints on originations of HEIs, an industry representative said.

The credit startup is seeking a limited-purpose charter from federal regulators through the Competitive Equality in Banking Act's credit card bank carveout.

Initially, the transaction will follow a sequential repayment structure that requires each note class to reach a required overcollateralization percentage before the next subordinate class begins receiving principal.

Notes will be backed by royalties from a music catalog containing more than 3,750 works from top artists and songwriters, including Diplo and ZZ Top.

Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf said bankers and economists are broadly against lowering interest rates now, given uncertainty from the Iran war.

Over half of all second-home inventory in the U.S. is concentrated in just eight states, with Florida leading the pack, according to analysis by NAHB.

A five-year-loan is financing Lyrik, a 495,275-square-foot, 20-story office tower, plus 38,012 square feet of retail space in Boston's Back Bay area, a premiere office submarket.

Nationwide, Americans are falling behind on their car loans. But among Ally Financial's customers, delinquencies fell during the first quarter.

About 43% of Americans upgraded their homes last year, and 33% plan to remodel in the next year, according to a recent survey from Redfin.

Ledn anticipates a virtuous cycle of funding and lending that could lead to more securitization deals.

Analysts expect the pool to be composed of receivables primarily from franchise dealers that offer indirect financing to consumers often overlooked by traditional financing sources such as banks.

Federal Reserve Gov. Stephen Miran Thursday said that the Iran war and tariffs will not have long-term impacts on inflation, but did say he is reconsidering his rate cut outlook for the year.

Quarterly filings are far from historic highs but rising more consistently, with concentrations in Florida, California and Texas, Attom's latest numbers show.

KBRA noted that debt service coverage ratio underwriting accounted for the largest portion of the loans in the pool, 35.0% and 52% of borrowers in the pool are self-employed.

The benchmark on the class A2 could change under certain circumstances, and the maximum allocation to the A2 notes will be 50% of the overall size of the A class.

Basel III recalibration cuts commercial real estate risk weights, unlocking $100 billion in bank lending capacity.

Large loan balances are increasingly common in non-QM and HELOC securitizations, bringing faster prepayments and higher delinquency risks, Bank of America Securities research shows.

Half of Gen Z homeowners and 44% of millennial homeowners were at risk of missing at least one mortgage payment over the last two years, ServiceLink found.

Recent securitizations have seen a shift toward sport-utility, crossover utility and electric vehicles, as well as higher concentrations of the Kia and Genesis brands.

Schwartz advises clients on convertible 144A offerings, as well as private investments in public and private companies.

Sheer luck kept all but one hurricane from U.S. shores in 2025; one landfall in 2026 could devastate servicers.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has dismissed scores of enforcement attorneys early in President Donald Trump's second term, is staffing up its litigation arm in anticipation of defending its rules in court.

In an update to its seller and servicer guide, Fannie Mae laid out details on responsibilities for vendor oversight and the need for transparent AI policy.

Iskandar and Kaveh have a liquidity reserve of about $16.3 million at closing, and a cash-trapping trigger if the three-month average class A debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) falls below 1.45x.

Zayo Issuer, series 2026-1 and 2026-2, uses a master trust structure that will initially issue five tranches of classes A, B and C notes, and can issue additional classes if they meet certain conditions.

The deal will issue floating-rate notes, through the A-1B tranche, while underlying variable-rate loans are pegged to either CME Term SOFR or the 30-day average SOFR.

A 21.2% spike in the price of gasoline was the biggest contributor to a 0.9% increase in the Consumer Price Index in March, according to a Friday report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The agency said other price increases were largely contained.

The sophomore outing follows a similar structure as the Clarus 2024-1, with six tranches of class A, B, C, D and E notes. The A2 tranche will issue the bulk of notes, $165.4 million.

It doesn't have to be all or nothing, but all paths are complex, capital markets and policy experts in the Treasury Market Practices Group say.

The underlying collateral pool is composed of 45,323 receivables, which have an average remaining loan balance of $30,210, and an average percentage rate (APR) 5.56%.