The government-sponsored enterprise recorded $98.7 billion in single-family loan acquisitions to begin the year, including over $43 billion in refinances.

The three class A notes, A1, A2 and A3, of GCAR 2026-2 notes will all benefit from hard credit enhancement levels, plus haircut to excess spread of 56.07%.

Irrespective of the transaction's trigger status, PRKCM 2026-AFC3 will pay the A-1FCF first, until its balance is reduced to zero, and then to the A-1LCF until it is paid down.

The Federal Open Market Committee's April meeting — likely Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's last — is unanimously expected to keep interest rates steady, but questions about energy, inflation and the upcoming transition in leadership still loom.

Bank statement underwriting, often applied in situations where the borrower is self-employed, accounted for the plurality of documentation types in the pool, at 44.9%.

Alongside a bill that gives homeowners a year of forbearance after state-declared emergencies, lawmakers will consider extending wildfire-related moratoriums.

The deal saw notable changes from SCLP 2021-1, especially an increase in target and initial overcollateralization.

Fintech firm IntraFi's most recent quarterly survey of bank executives showed rising pessimism among bankers related to "instability in Washington," as well as growing concerns about technology-enabled fraud.

Tower Point Capital, the deal's manager, is considered to have one of the largest privately held wireless infrastructure portfolios in the U.S.

Delinquencies also showed signs of overall improvement in March, despite an increase in foreclosure numbers, ICE Mortgage Technology said.

A proposed update to Basel III capital rules from federal banking regulators does not specifically include mortgage insurance as a factor in determining the risk weight for a mortgage loan held on a bank's balance sheet. Industry experts say it should.

Non-qualified loans are the majority of loans in the pool, 59.2%, while loans exempt from the Ability-to-Repay/Qualified Mortgage rule, represent 35.9%.