Investments

Direct lenders are trying to get their hands on consumer loans, cutting into banks' business and taking advantage of the sometimes volatile market for asset-backed debt.

GoodLeap 2023-2 has loans with fewer 25-year terms and higher FICO scores generally. Together, they'll have lower expected loss rates than those with longer terms and lower FICO scores.

At the embattled Republic First Bancorp, elevated legal, professional and audit fees also contributed to a nearly $10 million in first-quarter loss but CEO Thomas Geisel reports signs of progress moving past "legacy headwinds."

The pool will have an average senior overcollateralization cushion of 10.33%. Overall, however, the portfolio has a lower WA spread and lower available excess spread, which it says indicates a weaker underlying portfolio.

The senior, triple-A rated notes, which is in the A-1B class, are expected to have a 210 basis point spread, with a 38% credit enhancement level.

In a sign of how Japan's influence has grown, its regional banks have become a go-to buyer in the $1.3 trillion market — an important source of financing for junk-rated U.S. companies.

Urschel is said to have led the financing for the majority of recent franchised whole business securitizations and several dozen transactions involving cell tower, data center, fiber and other digital infrastructure assets.

Demand for AAAs is still challenged as banks, the biggest buyers, are facing too much uncertainty and volatility around their balance sheets.

Fixed-income trading revenue declined 17%, the firm said in a statement Tuesday, leaving Goldman the only major Wall Street bank so far to have posted a drop for that business.

Despite dearth of new loans, retail investors' exit from loan funds provides CLOs with new-issue supply.