New York City’s Climate Mobilization Act (CMA), touted as the city’s Green New Deal, is set to have a significant impact on the famous skyline. Property owners should now begin to familiarize themselves with the requirements and choose their optimal funding solutions. In many cases, the solution will be commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing, which allows energy-saving...
Before you put your money at risk in a Vegas casino, you’d want to know if the dealer was using hidden tactics to rig the game. The same should be said for prudent auto lending and investing – market participants should want to know that the auto dealer hasn’t rigged the game by deceiving the purchaser in ways that make default more likely. Yet, recent government investigations and private...
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.
