Banking

About $4 billion in value was erased from 118 retail-anchored properties with commercial mortgage-backed securities debt after reappraisals triggered by payment delinquencies, defaults or foreclosures.

Nearly all of the loans were originated by affiliates of Prime; a majority of the loans were for property acquisitions (26, 72.6%), with the remainder for refinance.

Citigroup restated fourth-quarter results after writing down a portion of a loan to Revlon it now owns after losing a court battle.

Already contending with stressed retail, hotel and restaurant loans, bankers are beginning to view office lending — historically a safe bet — as increasingly risky as companies of all types rethink their space needs.

Ares Management is among five issuers to have sponsored CRE CLO transactions so far in 2021; Starwood REIT's collateral advisor has also launched a CDO for project finance and corporate infrastructure loans.

Rohit Chopra, President Biden’s nominee to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has not minced words in calling out private companies for wrongdoing. He could get a grilling from Banking Committee Republicans and some opposition on the Senate floor.

Deals, trends and research in structured finance and asset-backed securities for the week of Feb. 19-25

Shared national credit balances rose 5% last year, and the percentage of at-risk loans nearly doubled. Regulators point out that banks have stashed away extra capital, but a lot will depend on the speed of the economic recovery and the performance of nonbank loans.

Companies most impacted by the economic crisis have seen their borrowings, including leveraged loans, considered “non-pass,” rise to 29.5% in last year’s third quarter from 13.5% in the same period a year earlier.

As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau slowed its pursuit of bad actors, state attorneys general vowed to pick up the slack. Here’s why they fell short — and why they are poised to get aggressive again.

Just over 12 billion euros ($14.6 billion) of new issue, refi and reset paper has priced so far this year, surpassing a previous high of 7.3 billion euros in the first two months of 2018.

New York-based Briarcliffe will provide fundraising services to existing asset managers looking to raise as much as $1.5 billion

Servicers could be dealing with approximately 1.8 million distressed properties when the latest forbearance extension ends in June, Black Knight said.

The extension rates were the highest since the peak of lender deferrals granted in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Hildene Capital, which is pressuring CIB Marine to issue subordinated debt to redeem preferred stock, has nominated two individuals to stand for election to the company's board.

Last month, prominent investor Steve Eisman pegged Credit Acceptance Corp. as his new big short, based on a belief the subprime auto lender and its industry may come under closer CFPB scrutiny under the new administration. Analysts are taking note, as well.

Acting Director Dave Uejio said Tuesday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will push back implementation of the qualified mortgage rule and may amend or revoke other Trump-era rules that have yet to take effect.

Firms are moving money into loans and notes that offer floating interest rates. Unlike the fixed payments on most conventional bonds, those on floating-rate debt go up as benchmark rates do, helping preserve their value.

Early-stage delinquencies were up slightly in both prime and subprime auto ABS pools, according to the agency's report for January.

A back-office blunder is leaving the financial behemoth faced with the prospect of becoming one of the biggest creditors to the troubled cosmetics empire.