It’s back to school time, and there’s so much noise about a student loan crisis that there’s a need to corral all the noisemakers and to gain an understanding of what’s actually going on. Sister Mary Elephant had the right idea when she scolded her classroom to be quiet some 40 years ago.
Joseph Cioffi was quoted in an Asset Securitization Report article, “Credit Enhancement Can’t Cure All Ills in Subprime Auto Market.”
There’s a caution flag out for subprime auto loan securitizations.
Joseph Cioffi was quoted in an Auto Finance News article, “Honor Finance’s ABS Downgrade Signals Market Contraction.”
Originations and Issuances, by the Numbers To date since the inception of Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing, $5.17 billion has been advanced to homeowners under residential PACE (R-PACE) programs, and an additional $672 million has been advanced for commercial PACE (C-PACE) projects. In 2017, R-PACE originations totaled $1.6 billion, down 6% compared with 2016. In 2018 so far,...
Originations and Issuances, by the Numbers New mortgage originations reached $428 billion in Q1 2018, down from $491 billion in Q1 2017 (a 12.9% decrease), according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. However, housing debt climbed to $8.94 trillion in Q1 2018, up from $8.63 trillion versus a year ago (an increase of 3.6%). Housing debt remains the leading source of consumer debt...
“They are who we thought they were!”