Banking

The U.S. economy is on solid footing except for one potential trouble spot, according to Bank of America Corp.’s Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan: leveraged loans -- a business the bank has dominated for a decade.

Lawmakers waded into a growing debate about the threat posed by corporate credit risk.

A decline in average FICO and recent loss levels in AmeriCredit's securitizations prompts Moody's to project slightly higher credit losses in the new transaction compared to previous rated deals.

KKR is sponsoring its first middle-market CLO transaction stemming from its direct lending partnership established last year with FS Investments, according to presale reports.

The large number of overleveraged commercial mortgage-backed securities loans coming due in 2019 is likely to cause the payoff rate to drop an additional 9 percentage points by December, a Morningstar report said.

The agency's spring rulemaking agenda includes the process for collecting small-business data as well as underwriting rules for GSE-backed loans. But what's missing from the list may be just as important.

The collateral will include $147.3 million in well-seasoned loans that were part of HESAA’s 2009 issuance, as well as up to $155 million in new loans that the trust will originate through an Oct. 31, 2020 prefunding and recycling period for the next academic calendar year.

S&P Global Ratings reports that cumulative loss levels on collateralized portfolios of subprime auto loans fell to 7.11% in March, compared to 8.67% in February. That figure was also down from 7.61% in March 2018, and the lowest since 2016.

Kathy Kraninger, the bureau's director, is in a standoff with Democrats about her claim that the agency cannot supervise institutions under the Military Lending Act.

The two agencies offer fundamentally different views of the level of risk in ABS issuances by Avant, Prosper Marketplace, LendingClub and other online lenders.

Online lenders now have close to 40% of the unsecured personal loan market, much of which is refinanced credit card debt. Banks' card portfolios are taking a hit.

A Davis & Gilbert poll of market participants showed more expect delinquencies over the next one to two years, likely requiring credit enhancement in future deals.

Although higher corporate debt could hurt the economy, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell argued changes made since the last crisis will guard against a meltdown.

The AGs say the agency's plan to rescind ability-to-repay requirements for payday loans would undermine states' ability to enforce their own laws.

S&P Global Ratings forecasts lower losses in subprime lender American Credit Acceptance's next auto-loan securitization, citing the inclusion of performing loans transferred from a recently called deal.

Farmers were already taking on more debt to cover losses from falling crop prices. New tariffs and other retaliatory moves could hurt ag borrowers further and lead to loan losses and tighter underwriting.

Regions Financial said Thursday that it will not renew its contract with GreenSky — a move analysts say could prompt other banks to re-examine their lending arrangements with the fintech.

The official told lawmakers Thursday that the research underlying the bureau's 2017 payday rule proposal did not support strict underwriting requirements of small-dollar loans.

The portion of Americans with a car loan climbed to 35% last year from just 20% in 1999, the New York Fed said in a blog post. Auto loans first overtook mortgages in 2013 and have pulled further ahead every year since.

It’s no coincidence that with more than half of consumers ages 20 to 29 now holding credit cards — up from 41% in 2012 — 90-day delinquency rates are at a seven-year high, according to the New York Fed.