Securitization

Director Mark Calabria urged lawmakers to grant the agency chartering authority similar to that of bank regulators to boost competition in the mortgage market.

The New York developer is apportioning part of a recent $595M loan via a Credit Suisse conduit to finance a full repurchase of its Manhattan HQ.

Prepayment speeds for loans included in agency mortgage-backed securities were up approximately 20% both monthly and annually during May as the decline in interest rates boosted activity, according to Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.

Harley-Davidson Credit Corp.'s first securitization in three years coincides with its parent firm's struggles to cope with steep EU retaliatory tariffs.

Rating criteria changes and a ruling in the Puerto Rico III case have undermined some investors' and analysts' confidence in revenue pledges.

The pool of 497 loans includes first-lien fixed- and adjustable-rate mortgages for single-family homes and multifamily properties, primarily underwritten to self-employed borrowers.

A Moody's report highlights the regional CLO market differences becoming more crucial to global investors who analysts say want to better discern variances in each market's standards and performance.

Toyota Motor Credit Corp. is debuting a new revolving ABS platform to securitize a large portion of six-plus year term loans excluded from its standard prime-loan securitization shelf.

The deal will add to the bulge of recent SASB deals that produced a monthly record volume of $7.6 billion through 11 deals in May.

The U.S. economy is on solid footing except for one potential trouble spot, according to Bank of America Corp.’s Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan: leveraged loans -- a business the bank has dominated for a decade.

The consolidation of the two companies' securitization platforms into a single bond market became official on Monday.

A decline in average FICO and recent loss levels in AmeriCredit's securitizations prompts Moody's to project slightly higher credit losses in the new transaction compared to previous rated deals.

The launch of a combined securitization platform for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is meant to ease the transition to a new housing finance system. But questions remain about how the mortgage sphere will adapt to the single security.

The $1.11 billion Ally Auto Receivables Trust (AART) 2019-2 deal has three classes of senior term notes with early AAA ratings by S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings.

Few changes were made from Verizon Wireless' previous transaction this year, including the standard credit enhancement levels of most of Verizon's recent DPP transactions.

KKR is sponsoring its first middle-market CLO transaction stemming from its direct lending partnership established last year with FS Investments, according to presale reports.

The large number of overleveraged commercial mortgage-backed securities loans coming due in 2019 is likely to cause the payoff rate to drop an additional 9 percentage points by December, a Morningstar report said.

The investment research firm plans to merge DBRS' ratings business with its existing Morningstar Credit Ratings Service.

The collateral will include $147.3 million in well-seasoned loans that were part of HESAA’s 2009 issuance, as well as up to $155 million in new loans that the trust will originate through an Oct. 31, 2020 prefunding and recycling period for the next academic calendar year.

S&P Global Ratings reports that cumulative loss levels on collateralized portfolios of subprime auto loans fell to 7.11% in March, compared to 8.67% in February. That figure was also down from 7.61% in March 2018, and the lowest since 2016.