No, getting real does not mean a politician’s grand plans, no matter how close they may get to office. Nor wiping out all student debt and paying for it with a tax on “Wall Street” – which did not create the problem and would, ultimately, impact American’s stock-filled retirement plans – is not a realistic solution either. Beyond fairness and reason, real plans require legal grounding and the...
Que sera, sera; what will be, will be. While it may be true, yielding to that platitude is a terrible way to create a successful future. Instead, we say, “what will be, will be what you expect…if you are prepared.”
Expectations are high for marketplace lending in 2020 but, more than any other lending sector, there are legal questions on the horizon that are likely to have an impact going forward. A Market on the Rise Marketplace lending deals have been steadily climbing since FinSight started tracking data in 2013. There was a jump from 2018 to 2019 with the number of tracked deals going from 37 in 2018 to...
History is filled with examples of a solution being repurposed to create greater benefits in unintended areas – think, Post-it Notes, the microwave oven and Botox. And often, the goals that spur a specific solution reflect a sea-change of thought that carries across markets. Case in point: Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy financing (R-PACE). In 2019, R-PACE may have declined but the...
With political turmoil, mixed economic signals and some industry-wide changes afoot, unpredictability seems to be the hallmark of the RMBS market. Since unpredictability can make people more dependent on predictions and past experience, we’ve identified some of the key events of 2019 and where they might lead in 2020.
Time keeps on slipping into the future (well, at least since 1976), bringing with it momentum that has the power to shift markets. If we do our homework, we can see where the momentum will take us in 2020.
Momentum changes everything – it’s hidden, but you know it when you feel it. It has the power to shift markets, so if you find where it’s headed, best to get there first. As we near year end, we’ve identified clues as to where momentum will take subprime auto in 2020, and in subprime auto, the 2019 numbers tell the story.
