Commercial banking

Dan Homes is a fraud and identity expert at Feedzai.

Tiffany Seawright is the director of leadership and civic engagement at North Carolina A&T State University.

Underwriting league tables of asset-backed securities through December 19, 2024

Issuance volume of asset-backed securities for the year through December 19, 2024

Economists say the U.S. economy is leaving 2024 healthy, with unemployment low, inflation manageable and growth robust. Unknown variables — including the depth and scope of President-elect Donald Trump's immigration and tariff policies — could change that course, but likely not until 2026.

Antoni Tzavelas is the chief happiness officer at Smiling Bowtie.

The overlooked segment offers a premium over AAAs backed by significant subordination, the firm says.

The $300 million offering marks private-market-specialist StepStone's inaugural middle market CLO.

ABS overall should outperform, but risks remain in specific areas

Andrew Wynn, co-founder and co-CEO of Ascend, has been at the forefront of empowering insurance companies through cutting-edge, profit-enhancing technology. With over a decade of experience in technology and insurance industries, Andrew has developed a keen insight into the challenges faced by insurance professionals.

Andrew started Sheltr, acquired by Hippo, a homeowner's coverage insurtech. During his time there, he witnessed firsthand the inefficient and outdated payment and accounting workflows that exist within insurance. With this experience, he founded Ascend with his co-founder, Praveen Chekuri.

Over the past two weeks, the 10-year Treasury yield, priced on market expectations, increased over 40 basis points and that is finally being seen in the Freddie Mac survey.

Jim Daniels has nearly 40 years of experience and leads UHY's Albany tax practice, which includes oversight of all tax engagements. He has an extensive background serving a variety of entities with tax compliance and planning related to corporate, individual, estate, and state and local taxes. He has vast knowledge of federal, state and local tax planning and multistate taxation.

Bryan Eberle is president of tax solutions at Nepsis, a national financial advisor and investment management firm.

He joined the firm prior to its acquisition of the full-service tax, accounting and consulting firm Sevenich, Butler, Gerlach & Brazil and was instrumental in planning for, and played a crucial role in, expanding Nepsis' tax program and merging the two entities.

The deferred pay structure offers investors a premium over traditional residential transition loan securitizations.

Deal finds lower pricing and adds a new class of AAA notes.

The Spanish bank has been making heavy use of significant risk transfers, which allow banks to free up capital used to back up loans by paying investors to take on some of the credit risk.

The fund will invest in the riskiest tranches of bonds backed by leveraged loans.

The Federal Reserve lowered its policy rate but signaled a more "cautious" approach to future cuts in light of higher inflation expectations. Policy uncertainty was one of several contributing factors to that change in forecast.

Higher charges for BB bonds would only marginally impact CLO market.