Captive finance lenders in recent years have been steadily reliant on used cars for asset-backed collateral. That’s not the case with American Honda Finance Corp.

Despite management reversal initiatives, the restaurant chain's declining sales and rising leverage prompted Kroll to downgrade notes from its 2017 franchise-fee securitization. The notes were previously downgraded this year by S&P.

The LendingClubs and SoFis of the world have a big head start, but HSBC's U.S. unit says its partnership with the fintech Avant will help it close the gap in online personal loans.

The $217.7 million BX 2019-MMP Mortgage Trust is a securitization of an interest-only loan issued to Blackstone Real Estate Partners backed by the cash flow from the apartments, in New York’s Upper East Side, Murray Hill and Chelsea neighborhoods.

Mortgage activity fell at the start of the year, but lower mortgage rates are boosting refinance volume, and Generation Z is starting to creep into the housing market, according to TransUnion.

Angel Oak is now offering mortgage brokers and correspondent loan sellers a prequalification tool to determine borrower eligibility for non-qualified mortgages.

The regulator of the government-sponsored enterprises retreated from an earlier proposal that had barred VantageScore because of its ties to the credit bureaus.

The $435.5 million Crown Point CLO 8 is a broadly syndicated collateralized loan obligation that has a “significantly below average” WARF of 2678, indicating a portfolio with a greater share of safer leveraged loans than other CLOs.

Borrower debt continues to rise, late payments are up and interest rates are at their highest levels since at least 1994. A new report raises questions about the sustainability of the card industry's boom.

All of the loans were originated by Greystone, an investment group based in New York that originated multifamily and health care facility loans for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the FHA and various commercial mortgage-backed securities.

The decline in the share of "cured" delinquent loans is a potential signal for increased securitization losses in the months to come.

With the agency mulling changes to the “Qualified Mortgage” regulation, mortgage lenders say little-known standards for how they document a borrower’s income would be a good place to start.