Default risk on purchase loans match default risk on refinances for the first time since 2021, per new Milliman research For the first time in three years, home purchase loans are considered just as ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac exhibit contrasting risk trajectories, while purchase loans dominate in a high-interest rate environment. Milliman Inc., a mortgage consulting and analytics firm, found that ...

The risk of default in the commercial real estate market is growing as office and retail property valuations could drop by as much as 40% while nearly $1.5 trillion in debt is due for repayment by the ...

Point Predictive on Tuesday released its 2025 Auto Lending Fraud Trends Report, detailing that finance companies face an estimated $9.2 billion in fraud loss exposure for 2025 — the highest ever ...

As the U.S. inches closer to the June 1 deadline to avoid defaulting on our $31.4 trillion national debt, ratings agencies have already begun hinting at downgrading the nation’s credit — a move that ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Credit Benchmark, the provider of global credit consensus ratings and analytics, today said that the already low 1% default rate among US oil & gas companies is likely to ...

New York Community Bank is working hard to right its ship, but the 2019 rent law is relentless. The Long Island-based lender, saved from the brink of collapse in March, reported a 990 percent surge in ...

The U.S. economy is looking resilient based on recent data, but cracks are starting to show for certain companies – and that could be bad news for investors chasing yield. Earlier this week, the ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Credit Benchmark, the provider of global consensus ratings and analytics, today said that it predicts that default risks will continue to rise and peak by mid-2024 across US ...

For decades, investors thought the risk of the US government defaulting on its debt was essentially zero. It was nice while it lasted. There’s still a low chance the US government will fail to pay ...

The first month of 2023 saw a strong rebound in mortgage REITs as investors sought "deep value" opportunities. Despite outperforming in 2022, Rithm Capital trades at a nearly 11% dividend yield, with ...