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Missed Auto Loan Payments on the Rise | Structured Finance Association
Consumers across the credit spectrum are struggling to make car payments. Delinquencies for subprime auto loan borrowers climbed to nearly 6.5 percent in January and remained elevated throughout 2025. Additionally, 2 percent of all auto loans were significantly overdue in August. High prices, high interest rates, and the resumption of student loan payments have put additional strain on consumer budgets.
Office Defaults in NYC Cause Uptick in CMBS Delinquencies
The double-digit rise in commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) delinquenciesfor September was mainly due to two office building loan defaults in Manhattan. New 60-day-plus delinquencies rose by $1.69 billion from August to September, and over half the new defaults from August to September were maturity defaults. Year-over-year CMBS delinquency rates for September increased by 21 basis points, and year-over-year office loan delinquency rates are up 227 basis points.
Regional Banks Write off Loans
After a series of bankruptcies and fraud cases, regional banks have been writing off bad loans over the course of the last two weeks, which was followed by increased use of the Federal Reserve’s repo facility. As less-diversified regional banks impacted by these actions saw their share values drop, investors raised concerns of larger risks potentially emerging. Read More.
Canada to Invest More Domestically | Structured Finance Association
The Canadian government, in response to a weakening business environment and U.S. tariffs, wants to make changes to facilitate greater Canadian pension investments into Canadian markets. This follows the “Buy Canada” initiative meant to promote Canadians buying domestically produced goods and the overall rise of economic nationalism in the country. These regulatory changes have been received with caution as some experts warn against the development of crony capitalism.
CNBC: Inflation Rises in Line with Expectations
On July 15, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released their CPI report which found that inflation rose by 0.3 percent in June, with the 12-month inflation rate for June 2025 coming in at 2.7 percent, in line with expectations. According to CNBC, while the impact of tariffs on prices was unclear, there are market signals that tariff sensitive goods are rising in price. Read More.
Federal Regulators Encourage Financial Inclusion
Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman, at the Federal Reserve’s Financial Inclusion Conference, highlighted how novel credit scoring models and alternative data could be used to understand and expand credit and financial services to credit invisibles. Vice Chair Bowman noted that the Federal Reserve is committed to taking advantage of technology when promoting financial inclusion. Read More (Subscription Required)
Credit Card Delinquencies Drop in Q1
The fall in 30-, 60-, and 90-day credit card delinquencies in tandem with the material decrease in the percentage of new card accounts with a credit score below 660 signals a tightening of credit standards as banks try to manage uncertainty. Interest rate margins rose, reaching all-time highs of 17.1 percent for general credit cards and 23.7 percent for private label cards.
Basel III Delayed in the UK
The Bank of England pushed the Basel III implementation date on capital requirements for wholesale trading activities from 2027 to 2028. This follows the EU’s decision to push Basel III trading book rules to 2027. The Bank of England stated that the delay would allow for more flexibility in how banks calculate capital requirements. Additional changes to Basel III include allowing UK banks to assume more risks to provide home loans to low-income borrowers. Read More (Subscription Required)
How to Achieve Diversity in the Workplace
Having tough conversations about diversity and working towards a more inclusive environment should be a vital part of any successful business. But what, exactly, is diversity? We define diversity as understanding, accepting, and valuing differences in races, ethnicities, genders, ages and more. Diversity can also include recognizing and respecting differences in education, skill sets, abilities and experiences. To address diversity in the workplace, you have to be intentional.
Female CFOs, CEOs at Big Companies Outearn Male Counterparts
Women have made gains in recent decades at companies of all sizes but are far from attaining parity with men in all ways in the workplace, according to recent reports. Read More.
Chasing Work-Life Balance Can ‘Lead to Anxiety,’ Harvard Professor Says—Try the ‘Pendulum Lifestyle’ Instead | Structured Finance Association
The constant pursuit of work-life balance is admirable, but can be daunting. Fortunately, there is a new outlook that offers a more realistic and attainable way to live. Jeff Karp, a professor of biomedical engineering at Harvard Medical School and MIT, is using his scientific background to liken the back and forth movements of a pendulum to the ebbs and flows of daily life.
The Share of Women Running Global 500 Companies Falls to Just 5.6%
Women run 5.6% of businesses on this year’s Global 500—down from 5.8% this time a year ago. In total, female CEOs lead just 28 out of 500 companies on the list of the world’s largest businesses by revenue.That lags behind the Fortune 500, which measures the largest U.S.-based companies by revenue. There, women have crossed the 10% threshold and now run 10.4% of Fortune 500 businesses. On this year’s Fortune 500, the share of businesses led by female CEOs stayed flat from a year prior. Read More.
Female Representation in Senior Leadership Is Stagnating. Here’s What HR Can Do About It
The global gender gap, a measure of gender inequality published annually by the World Economic Forum (WEF), narrowed slightly in 2024 to 68.5%, just 0.1 percentage-point higher than the previous year. The score is an aggregate measure of how opportunities for women fare against those afforded to men in four different categories. Economic and political participation stand out as two categories with the most room for improvement.
More Women Are Working Than Ever. But They’re Doing Two Jobs.
More women than ever have entered the American workforce. Heavy demand for employees combined with more opportunities for remote work and a surge in female entrepreneurs are sending a flood of women into the labor market. Women now hold a record 79 million jobs, and the share of women in their prime working years who are employed or seeking work now stands at 77.9%, up from 75.8% five years ago. But it’s not time for a victory lap just yet.
Structured Finance Foundation Awards Scholarships to UDC Students
Two Exceptional University of the District of Columbia Students Awarded Scholarships in a Ceremony on Campus Today, May 10, 2024 at a ceremony on campus, the Structured Finance Foundation, an affiliate of the Structured Finance Association (SFA), awarded $10,000 educational scholarships to Kayleah S. Shelton and Torian K. Powell, two exceptional University of the District of Columbia (UDC) students.
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Strong Employment Means High Interest Rates for Longer
By Michael Bright A blowout jobs report would usually be a good sign for a nation’s economy. But the U.S. jobs report that came out earlier this month increased fears that interest rates will remain elevated for longer than had been expected. The Labor Department reported that nonfarm payrolls surged by 336,000 jobs last month, surpassing expectations. The implications also are outsized. Economists had predicted a more modest addition of 170,000 jobs, half the actual number.
Mortgage Rates: A Primer
By Michael Bright Mortgage rates are north of 7 percent for a 30-year fixed loan, the highest mortgage rates since 2004. That is a psychological fact in addition to being a financial data point. For 20 years, people have grown accustomed to rates lower than today’s. They were in the 3 percent range not long ago. Those were historically low, but people got used to them. The whipsaw between then and now has made homebuyers – and home sellers – gun shy.
A Flurry of New Financial Services Regulations Threatens the Economy
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UCR | Along the Chaparral
The Along the Chaparral anthology project features stories and text sharing the lives and experiences of some of the thousands of individuals enshrined at Riverside National Cemetery. The contributions are written by K-12 students who participate in the collaborative project with the University of California Riverside, Riverside Unified School District, Beaumont Unified School District, Sherman Indian High School and other area schools and communities in Riverside County, through the U. S.
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