JOSEPH CIOFFI

Student Debt Burden: Whose Problem Is It, Anyway?

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.

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Credit Enhancement Can’t Cure All Ills in Subprime Auto Market

Joseph Cioffi was quoted in an Asset Securitization Report article, “Credit Enhancement Can’t Cure All Ills in Subprime Auto Market.”

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Dis-Honor in a Downgrade – Strong Management and Credit Enhancements Mean More Today Than Yesterday (But Not as Much as Tomorrow)

There’s a caution flag out for subprime auto loan securitizations.

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Honor Finance’s ABS Downgrade Signals Market Contraction

Joseph Cioffi was quoted in an Auto Finance News article, “Honor Finance’s ABS Downgrade Signals Market Contraction.”

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PACE Financing: 60-Second Market Review and Insights

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,...

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Residential Mortgages and RMBS: 60-Second Market Review and Insights

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...

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Subprime Auto Loan Crisis Chronometer Update

“They are who we thought they were!”

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