Payments

The company, which helped consumers strategize their credit card payments and pivoted to a B2B model earlier this year, has sold its intellectual property two months after it folded.

Those metrics were merely a return to solid pre-pandemic levels and do not suggest a deterioration, says Moody's. Yet a broader, and more weakened employment picture is emerging, SMBC Nikko Securities says separately.

Since July 21, 2021, the cutoff date before its last deal, Avant's active credit card accounts increased 388%, to its current 1 million accounts.

The Swedish institution is adding savings accounts to its signature buy now/pay later service as it plots an IPO. Analysts say it will be a struggle to go against U.S. institutions.

The class A and class B notes benefit from credit enhancement levels of 12.50% and 8.75%, respectively, and the class A notes benefit from the subordination of class B certificates.

Investment banking fees shot up at the nation's largest bank, thanks to rebounds in M&A and the equity capital markets segment. And despite higher credit costs in the company's card business, a top bank executive expressed confidence in the health of U.S. consumers.

The deal benefits from excess spread, overcollateralization, and senior/subordinate enhancements.

Initially, the reserve account starts at 0.0%, but it will be funded to either 1.00%, 2.00% or 3.00%, depending on the level of the notes' three-month average excess spread.

A proposal from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to extend the same protections as credit cards to the fast-growing BNPL industry aims to protect consumers, but it could also stunt the nascent industry's growth, experts say.

A federal judge in Texas is locked in a back-and-forth with an appeals court over whether the industry's challenge to a cap on credit card late fees should be moved to Washington, D.C.