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Ballard Spahr LLP

Fed Makes a Move: First Rate Cut Since 2020 Signals Economic Shift

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This week, the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) decided that its target policy rate range would decrease by 50 basis points, resulting in a new target range for the Federal Funds Rate of 4.75 percent to...more

Alston & Bird

FHA and VA Announce New Loss Mitigation Options

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What Happened? Both the FHA and VA have established new loss mitigation options to provide payment reduction to delinquent borrowers.  On February 21, 2024, the Federal Housing Administration (“FHA”) within the U.S....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

FHA Announces New Loss Mitigation Payment Supplement Option

Amidst record-level interest rates, on February 21, 2024, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced a new loss mitigation option, the Payment Supplement, to aid struggling borrowers. The Payment Supplement will bring...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Shared Appreciation Interest: Debtor-Creditor or Partners?

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When is a loan not a loan? When it’s something else – for example, equity. This is one of those pesky facts and circumstances issues that plague courts, taxpayers, and tax advisers to no end. Debt- On one end of the...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

UPDATED: Term SOFR vs BSBY vs Ameribor in the Loan Market

This is an update to a previous post. This update highlights the formal endorsement of Term SOFR by the ARRC, expands the discussion to include Ameribor and dives more deeply into the issues associated with Term SOFR swaps...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

Term SOFR vs BSBY in the Loan Market

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Wednesday, the ARRC announced (HERE) the expectation to endorse CME’s Term SOFR in late July or early August. One of the bigger pieces to this announcement is the announcement that U.S. regulators will also permit Term SOFR...more

Hogan Lovells

Banking and finance regulatory news, August 2020 #3

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COVID-19: PRA suspends guidance levels on fixed rate lending limits for non-systemic building societies - On 11 August 2020, the UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) published a letter (dated 31 July 2020) sent from...more

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Swaps 101 and the Death of LIBOR

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There are many types of swaps: commodity swaps, foreign exchange swaps, but of primary interest to real estate lawyers are interest rate swaps. Interest rate swaps are colloquially thought of as contracts by which a naturally...more

White & Case LLP

Real estate finance: Floating the idea of fixing

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Costs associated with LIBOR's discontinuation could tip the scale in favour of fixed-rate loans in real estate finance. LIBOR's phasing out in 2021 is set to shake up the real estate finance market, amplifying the appeal...more

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