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Store counts and systemwide sales could expand further, and soon; in December 2021 the company announced its intentions to acquire Del Taco for $575 million.

The asset-backed-security (ABS) market should be “largely stable” in 2022, but the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with inflation, may hurt segments of the sector, structured finance experts at Fitch Ratings said at a recent conference.

Bonds tumbled across the world on Thursday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s latest hawkish pivot, with yields from Wellington to London breaching multi-year highs.

Pagaya AI Debt Trust, 2022-1, or PAID 2022-1, will be Pagaya Structure’s first publicly rated securitization.

Performing and re-performing loans are in the pool, as well as fixed, adjustable-rate and step-rate loans, and fully-amortizing balloon and interest-only mortgages.

In a transaction that is expandable, Kapitus Asset Securitization will be able to periodically issue additional notes up to a maximum of $600 million.

Collateral characteristics are slightly weaker than previous deals, due to a higher proportion of loans underwritten to alternative income documentation.

While the IMF sees the omicron variant weighing on growth in the first quarter, it expects the negative impact to fade starting in the second quarter, assuming that the global surge in infections abates.

Office properties account for 60.8% of the pool, above the 41.2% average for 2020 deals, and above the 36.5% average for 2021.

Russia’s troop buildup on the Ukraine border is now being cited by strategists as one of the main threats to global markets.