The Internal Revenue Service said that interest payments on home-equity loans can still be deductible under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that went into effect at the end of 2017 if it’s used for home improvements.
The banking industry continued to show tepid interest in the non-mortgage ABS market as 2017 came to a close, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS ranking and analysis.
The consumer credit cycle seems to be weakening, given current credit trends in consumer ABS, analysts at Wells Fargo Securities said in a new report. They see the solution as being broad economic growth.
A subsidiary of Tesla issued its first ABS backed by auto leases this week and the electric car manufacturer plans to issue more deals going forward. The $608.1 million deal received AAA ratings from Moody’s Investors Service even though concerns were raised about various issues involving the transaction.
Credit card issuers will probably have a good 2018, much like they did last year, but some dark clouds are beginning to appear on the horizon, according to a new report from DBRS.
A huge rebound in securitization of credit-card receivables in 2017 helped boost the non-mortgage ABS market to a significant 21.2 percent increase in new issuance, according to a new rank-ing and analysis by Inside MBS & ABS.
A subsidiary of DRB Capital is set to issue a $59.9 million ABS backed by annuities and life-contingent structured settlement receivables. The deal received AAA ratings from Morningstar Credit Ratings late last week.
Commercial banks and savings institutions are not major investors in the non-mortgage ABS market, and their holdings slipped again during the third quarter of 2017, according to a newInside MBS & ABS ranking and analysis.
Industry fundamentals in the auto ABS sector are improving in the wake of the hurricanes, ac-cording to a report by a pair of analysts at Wells Fargo Securities.
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