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There is hope among issuers that the structural changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic can bolster CLO resiliency, thereby enabling market participants to better weather the next economic storm.

The mortgage REIT's external manager responded by filing a new lawsuit against it, calling the move "baseless and retaliatory."

The coronavirus impact in the U.,S. alone has resulted in a 30% year-over-year decline across securitizations, CLOs and MBS.

Ocwen Financial's preliminary second-quarter results put it back in the black, and it is positioning its growing distressed-servicing expertise and pandemic-induced exposures as a net positive.

The Detroit lender disclosed that the consumer bureau had sent a civil investigative demand to Rocket Homes Real Estate for potential violations of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act.

The big drop in CLO equity this year signals investor fear that this downturn will be more like the 1998 to 2003 period, where company defaults rise and stay elevated over the course of years, and profiting from improving prices in loans is hard.

he report concluded that the industry should fare well compared with its peers, but that loans to mid-sized European companies remained vulnerable to fall-out from Covid-19.

B. Riley FBR raised its ratings for both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to sell from neutral on the possibility the net worth sweep is declared illegal.

If creditors can now be pushed down the repayment pecking order without notice and have no recourse to fight back, they will be forced to reassess risk – and potentially demand higher interest rates – when granting loans and buying certain kinds of bonds.

The fitness chain weathered an initial round of COVID-19 closings in March to continue supporting investor payments on $1.8 billion of whole-biz securitization notes. But surging coronavirus spreads in its key markets could force a reversal of gym reopenings, subjecting the bonds to potential downgrades.