UMB Financial’s success in aviation financing has boosted fee income, and the Missouri company has opened an office in Dublin — a hub for airplane sales and leases that could get busier as the airline industry restructures.
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The development bodes well for outcomes on distressed loans backed by major government-related mortgage investors Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
March 26
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The first-time securitization by the online commercial-finance will involve more than half of the San Francisco-based company's managed accounts portfolio.
March 26
- LIBOR
The heads of the Federal Reserve and Treasury are urging passage of legislation that would replace Libor with the Secured Overnight Financing Rate in certain contracts. That would spare banks litigation over trillions of dollars of contracts when Libor expires in 2023.
March 26
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Deals, trends and research in structured finance and asset-backed securities for the week of March 19-25
March 25
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The FHFA’s forbearance extension to September is forcing nonbank servicers to buy out more delinquent loans. It's also upended loss estimates for investors and made racial and income disparities in the mortgage market worse.
March 25
- LIBOR
The act, yet to be signed by Gov. Cuomo, aims to resolve the difficult problem of how to fairly compensate floating-rate investors in instruments for which the London interbank offered rate is no longer published.
March 25
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she prefers to have the Financial Stability Oversight Council flag hazardous activities by nonbanks rather than subject specific firms to heightened supervision.
March 24
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Complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau jumped 54% to 542,300 in 2020. Concerns about credit reports have long outnumbered those in other categories and jumped significantly as a share of the total from 2019.
March 24
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Pretium Partners and Ares Management recently closed on a $2.5 billion acquisition of SFR owner/operator Front Yard Residential Corp., in a deal first announced last October.
March 24
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Volumes were at a record high in the final quarter of 2020 but lenders didn’t make quite as much since gains on loan sales to the secondary market fell.
March 23
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Two banking bills signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker carry implications for payday lenders, auto title lenders, credit unions and nonbank mortgage lenders. Pritzker, a Democrat, said the bills will address racial-equity gaps in the state.
March 23
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s acting director has said he could rethink the pending Fair Debt Collection Practices Act rules, but a report released Monday indicated they’re moving ahead for the time being.
March 22
