With the fallout of the 2008 mortgage crisis fresh in our minds and still shaping the market and policy, the government and market participants have acted swiftly to step in and offer some immediate relief for borrowers, while keeping liquidity as high as possible.
There’s apparently nothing like a pandemic to get the federal government moving on issues surrounding student loans, the second largest segment of consumer debt behind mortgage loans. At this time, only borrowers under federal loans are seeing relief. Private lenders have not reported any sweeping plans, leaving individuals with private student loans to reach out to their servicers for help.
Joseph Cioffi was interviewed by Structured Credit Investor, "Testing Times: MPL Platforms Addressing Coronavirus Impact."
Distance – the space between – defines our present in so many respects, but that’s not what will lead to success in any market. We have distance from each other, distance from our normal life of just days ago and distance from a future without COVID-19. But that distance has underscored the interconnection of people and markets and their actions like nothing has before. Sure, we knew we were all...
Joseph Cioffi was quoted in an Asset-Backed Alert article, "Court Solution Seen for Libor Issue."
Joseph Cioffi was consulted for an Asset-Backed Alert update, "Incomplete Fallbacks Attracting Opportunists."
As history bears out, "honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." We’ll take it as a positive sign then that, when taking the pulse of the subprime auto market lately, the discourse surrounding risk levels is becoming more fact-based than we’ve seen in the past.
