Investments

The success of the government-sponsored enterprises' credit risk transfer programs shows that they can be the basis for housing finance reform.

Allstate Investment Management's latest collateralized loan portfolio includes a five-year-plus reinvestment period, and some added leeway on credit metrics and performance tests.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority is marketing its fifth transaction financing local residential solar-panel installations; all of the notes carry an A rating from Kroll.

From efforts to fix the London interbank offered rate to changes in online lenders' funding programs, here are some of the highlights of the Structured Finance Industry Group's 2018 confab in Sin City.

From investor angst to regulatory scrutiny, here's a look at three obstacles that must be addressed before Ocwen Financial can acquire PHH Mortgage.

GSO/Blackstone's Cook Park CLO is the firm's first new-issue transaction since November; the senior, triple-A-rated tranche pays just 92 basis points over Libor.

Avoca CLO V was issued only the second default rating of a subordinate global CLO in the last four years, the result of an unpaid subordinate tranche in an early deal liquidation by manager KKR.

Ocwen Financial Corp.'s acquisition of PHH Corp. will help the nonbank servicer rebuild scale that's been diminished by years of regulatory restrictions and the decline in distressed mortgage volume brought about by improvements in the overall housing market.

Participants at the Structured Finance Industry Group conference in Las Vegas say that future deals could be linked to the performance of jumbo, as well as conforming loans.

The DC Circuirt Court's ruling that CLO managers are exempt from skin in the game rules disappointed some investors, who are willing to pay a premium for deals in which their interests are aligned.