Consumer lending

Jack Remondi issued a direct call Wednesday for the agency to drop its lawsuit against the student loan servicer. “You’ve had five years to look for your evidence, you’ve found none,” he said.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency says the riskiest notes issued in the 2016 transaction are at “substantial risk of loss,” following on the heels of a similar move by S&P last week. Kroll also put a more senior class of notes under review for a possible downgrade.

The nominee to run the consumer bureau endured tough questioning over the administration’s family-separation policy but appeared to weather the barrage.

S&P has cut its credit ratings on a deep subprime loan securitization completed by Honor Finance in 2016, warning that the most subordinate tranche of notes issued in the deal is “at risk of not being repaid.”

OneMain can add qualifying loans to the pool of collateral for the first two years of the transaction; by comparison, its two prior deals featured one-year revolving periods.

Bank of America’s consumer loans grew a lot. But its rivals? Not so much. The mixed results raise questions about whether BofA’s performance is a leading or trailing indicator, and if credit quality is going to be more of a problem industrywide.

The Dallas-based lender's third foray into the deep subprime ABS market in 2018 arrives as recent Santander DRIVE securitizations are performing well with recently lowered loss expectations from S&P Global Ratings.

Loans originally securitized in three 2013 transactions account for some 11.4% of the initial collateral for the $230 million CPS Auto Receivables Trust 2018-C, according to S&P Global Ratings.

Virginia National will set aside up to $950,000 to cover losses after ReliaMax, a firm that issues surety bonds for student loans, was placed into liquidation.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s bulletin is seen as just one piece of the regulatory puzzle to coax banks into installment lending.

Nelnet’s planned bank would be an online enterprise focused on gathering deposits and making private student loans.

The notes, which are rated by DBRS, are backed by a mix of products to borrowers with weak credit; the pool of collateral will revolve over the first two years of the transaction.

Lauren Hedvat, Angel Oak's managing director of capital markets, said that the rising non-qualified mortgage volume in the market has expanded the number of third-party origination loan packages for purchase.

In Santander Consumer USA's third subprime shelf offering of 2018, new cars represent 55.8% of the collateral. In previous deals dating to 2013 new-car concentrations did not exceed 40.9%.

The agency will have to rework its strategy for amending its payday lending rule after a federal court rebuffed efforts to stop the rule from going into effect.

The Dallas auto lender might lose as much as one-third of its business if it severs ties with the automaker, raising fresh questions about whether its parent company will buy out shareholders and take full ownership.

Global Lending Services returns to double-A status in its new $299.4M transaction, while American Credit Acceptance issued another AAA-rated deal with a substantial prefunding account feature.

The subprime lender could lose a big partner now that Fiat Chrysler has officially announced it will form its own auto finance unit, and the two are negotiating an end to their 6-year-old relationship.

Despite a steep drop in average FICO and increase in extended-term loans, DriveTime is shaving overcollateralization levels thanks in part to improved performance from its outstanding securitization portfolios.

Dark clouds may not yet be on the horizon, but industry executives are sending the message to investors that they know a turn in the credit cycle is coming, and they are planning accordingly.