Although ratings are capped on the notes, the underlying pool of loans in Caliber Home Loan's second securitization of nonprime residential mortgages have improved in quality with the inclusion of investor and second-home purchases by mainland China investors.
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Bayview Asset Management is securitizing $159.6 million of securities that transfer the risk of credit losses on mortgage insured by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, according to Fitch Ratings.
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In a quarterly survey by the New York-based International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers, 57% of respondents expect wider credit spreads in U.S. investment grade debt and 70% in U.S. high yield bonds and leveraged loans over the final three months of the year. Also for the fourth quarter, 66% see rising levels of corporate defaults.
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The Florida Public Service Commission has a beef with Standard & Poors, Moodys Investors Service, and Fitch Ratings, which all characterize bonds backed by utility fees as a kind of structured finance, rather than as corporate bonds.
October 13
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Hawksmoor Mortgages 2016-2 plc is a British sterling-pound denominated RMBS with a £1.124 billion pool balance secured by mortgages to residential properties in the UK extended to 12,153 borrowers. Eighty percent were originated by GE's UK home-lending arms that have since sold off portfolios and exited the British mortgage scene.
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Sprint Corp. is borrowing against its most valuable asset the airwaves to buy more time for a turnaround.
October 12
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Subprime borrowers are falling behind on their car loan payments at the highest rate in more than six years, and some bonds backed by these loans are vulnerable to getting downgraded, according to S&P Global Ratings
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What the CFPB Constitutionality Ruling Means for banks and other lenders.
October 12
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Navient Corp. is planning its second student-loan securitization in excess of $1 billion this year. The transaction also marks a return to a pool of primarily performing loans through the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP), after two prior transactions consisting entirely of rehab loans that have rebounded from default status.
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Fannie Mae has released the details of its pilot sale of reperforming loans.
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Tricon American Homes is prepping its second securitization of single family rental homes, according to rating agency reports.
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The single-director structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau represents an unconstitutional concentration of executive power, a federal appeals court said Tuesday. But the court stopped short of disbanding the agency, instead giving the president more power to remove its leader.
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