Consumer lending

Susan Ehrlich, the fintech lender's new chief, discusses what she learned working at Amazon and Simple and how her firm is approaching consumer loans differently.

In a unanimous ruling, the court placed new limits on the ability of consumers to sue law firms that handle foreclosures on behalf of mortgage servicers.

Unusually, all of the loans in the $374 million transaction were purchased from a single originator, Impac Mortgage.

The state's financial regulator says Fast Money Loan charged consumers interest rates and fees above the state's usury cap, and operated unlicensed storefronts.

The company spun out of DriveTime is paying for the privilege, however; it's offering 50.3% credit enhancement on the senior notes of the $338 million deal rated by Kroll.

The company controlled by Emerald Development Managers has already ceased originating; S&P has notes from a 2016 securitization on watch and Kroll is monitoring the situation.

Seven years after James Gutierrez left Oportun Financial and started a competitor, the acrimony sparked by the divorce is coming into public view.

The bureau's director, Kathy Kraninger, faced a barrage of criticism from Senate Democrats on the agency's lack of enforcement actions, a reversal on Military Lending Act examinations and changes to the payday loans rule.

While S&P expects higher net losses to over a five-year span, Kroll believes stricter reinvestment criteria for the extended revolving period can reduce them.

The upstart lenders have been chipping away at credit cards’ consumer-lending dominance by offering fixed-rate loans with predictable repayment plans. Now the card giants are fighting back.

The $1 billion DRIVE 2019-2 is backed by loans with slightly weaker credit metrics than the lender's prior deal, forcing it to increase credit enhancement.

The Atlanta company, which reported fourth-quarter results Tuesday, said that the lending partnership with American Express will launch in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Dallas within the next 60 days.

Add the Alabama company to the list of lenders that are disappointed in the returns on loans made through car dealers and their inability to build broader relationships with those borrowers.

From financing driverless cars to dealing with Libor's demise, here are the highlights from the Structured Finance Industry Group's annual conference.

Allowing borrowers to defer payments can be an effective way to mitigate losses, but only when used judiciously, according to S&P.

Since most U.S. securities transactions are subject to New York law, it could be expedient to pass legislation defining Libor as SOFR plus a spread, says David Bowman, special adviser to the Fed.

The foray into digital consumer lending follows a similar move by rival Citigroup.

Libor’s demise poses significant problems for outstanding floating-rate securities that are pegged to the benchmark; SFIG wants to make it easier to amend deals.

Personal loan balances hit an all-time high in 2018, while fintech lenders widened their market share lead over banks and credit unions, according to new data from TransUnion.

While student, auto and credit card balances are at or near record levels, housing debt is shrinking, credit quality is weakening a bit and lending standards, at least in some sectors, are tightening.