The San Carlos, California, consumer lender said it's "exploring strategic options" for its credit card portfolio, discontinuing its investment and retirement products and sunsetting a partnership with Sezzle in addition to embarking on a new round of job cuts.

As U.S. credit card balances continue to march above $1 trillion, the number of newly delinquent credit card users now exceeds the pre-pandemic average and millennials and those with student or auto loans are driving the increase in past-due payments, the New York Fed said.

Often a harbinger of recessions, the fact that short-term yields are higher than long-term is not inherently bad, Federal Reserve Gov. Chris Waller said Tuesday, noting that in this case it could prove that market expectations are anchored.

On average, the borrowers have a non-zero FICO score of 723, the same as VZMT 2023-6, Fitch said. Accounts with upgrade eligibility account for 56.12% of the pool, slightly lower than the previous deal.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a report last week examining state CRA laws that have a more expansive scope and are more tightly integrated in the state licensing process.

The withdrawal of pandemic housing relief and high home prices have heightened consumer strain, according to nonprofit Money Management International.

The transaction structure benefits from several forms of credit enhancement to the deal, including advance rates of 55.0%, 66.5% and 76.5% on the classes A, B and C notes, and a rapid amortization trigger event.

Heads of the three major bank regulatory agencies made their case for why the recently finalized framework implementing the Community Reinvestment Act is not all bad for the banks subjected to it.

Full-term, interest-only loans account for 98.4% of the pool, while just two loans, or 1.6% are financed with an amortizing balloon. Analysts expect a cap rate of 9.19% capitalization rate to the underlying properties.

In one of the deal's positive credit attributes, none of the underlying loans in the collateral have terms longer than 72 months. Such longer-term loans have historically performed worse than shorter-term loans.

But the company was profitable for the second consecutive period under standard accounting principles in the third quarter.

Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr says that while there has been some opposition to the recent overhaul of Community Reinvestment Act regulations, he expects that banks, supervisors and communities will adapt and thrive once it's fully implemented.