Subprime lending

The nation's fifth-largest bank on Monday rolled out a three-month consumer loan that is far less expensive than the typical payday loan. The move comes as regulators are encouraging banks to reach out to the subprime market, which they largely abandoned.

Caliber Home Loans’ next offering of subprime mortgage bonds includes a new product offered to borrowers with a stronger credit profile than its other programs – but also less equity in their homes.

Moody’s expects losses on Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2018-4 to reach 25% of the original balance over the life of the deal, down from 26% for its prior deal.

Investor appetite for deeply subordinated debt is increasing even as the industry starts to consolidate; problems at Honor Finance demonstrate the limits of relying on overcollateralization to offset losses.

About 8.5% of loans backing the $256.2 million transaction were reassigned from a 2015 deal; this boosted the weighted average seasoning to seven months from one month for ACA's prior deal.

S&P says extended term loans and "liberal" collection policies are pushing losses and amortization toward the tail end of some lenders' securitizations — making cross-comparing performance between lenders and an issuer's own outstanding vintage deals more difficult.

New investor appetite for mortgages over $1 million is motivating more nonbank lenders to offer super jumbo loans, often with weaker credit terms than traditional banks.

Similar to the sponsor's prior transaction, however, the collateral includes a large portion of loans underwritten using bank statements to verify borrower income: 49%.

The investors initially won the right to sue as a group in 2015 before an appeals court reversed the ruling; the $13 billion lawsuit can now proceed as a class action.

Westlake increased the size of all eight classes of notes by at least 37% as investor demand surges for subprime ABS paper