Commercial banking

Residential customers made up 70.1% of NYSEG's sales revenue, while commercial and industrial customers account for the other 30% of sales. The latter is a relatively high exposure for such deals.

Bessent, who joined Trump at the Oval Office, said the fund would be created in the next 12 months, calling it an issue "of great strategic importance."

Ekine Akuiyibo is the Chief Operating Officer at Socotra, where he oversees field engineering, product delivery, partnerships, training, and support. Prior to Socotra, Ekine spent 15 years in enterprise software development, sales, and services at Sun Microsystems, BAE Systems, and Oracle.

Most recently, Ekine worked on large scale ML problems at Oracle. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford.

Minas Kourouglos is Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions at Trucordia. He has served in that role for five years, having executed nearly 100 transactions ranging from $5M - $100M+ in valuation. Prior to Trucordia, he was the Managing Principal of a commercial insurance agency that sold to Trucordia in 2020.   Before the insurance industry Minas spent over 10 years as a management consultant servicing multiple industries.  Minas has an MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BS from the University of Richmond.

Underwriting league tables of asset-backed securities through January 30, 2025

Issuance volume of asset-backed securities for the year through January 30, 2025

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who was named to be acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has told the agency's staff to put a halt to all rules, enforcement actions and hiring.

Unlike previous FIGRE deals where overcollateralization provided credit support to the notes, FIGRE Trust 2025-HE1 has a class G composed of principal-only notes that provide the credit support.

Debt service coverage ratio triggers, including cash trapping and rapid amortization, will provide much of the credit enhancements to the notes.

Brandy Burch is the CEO and founder of benefitbay.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Rohit Chopra in a letter to President Donald Trump confirmed that his "term as CFPB Director has concluded."

The deal has a step-up coupon feature that calls for the fixed rates on classes A1, A2 and A3 to increase by 100 basis points, subject to the net weighted average coupon (WAC) after four years.

State banking associations across the country said that Michelle Bowman should be the Federal Reserve vice chair for supervision, not least because she already sits on the Fed board and could start immediately.

Shayna Olesiuk is director of banking policy at Better Markets.

It took until Thursday for the president to indicate he'd follow through on some of his tariff threats, meaning investors who had been bracing for levies to be imposed on day one of his term had a couple weeks of relief.

The multifamily property securities market is expected to stay resilient, despite weaknesses in certain markets due to cooling rent growth, higher vacancy, or oversupply.

Called collateral from various series increased to 6.0%, from 4.0%, while weighted average seasoning increased to 3.15 months from 2.82 months.

Collateralized loan obligation activity should increase despite higher-for-longer rates and liability management exercises.

Russell Vought, should he be confirmed by the full Senate, would join a short list of those able to lead the CFPB, as his predecessor Mick Mulvaney did, per the requirements of the Vacancies Act.

Joey Rault is the chief revenue officer of Codat.