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SFA Research Corner: From HP IIc to Agentic AI: Why Agentic AI Feels Like the Future of Securitization
October 2, 2025
In the early 1990s, ABS surveillance meant hand-calculating metrics on an HP IIc calculator, deal by deal, report by report. Today, the data deluge makes that manual approach impossible — and the industry is entering a third wave of innovation. Agentic AI promises to take structured finance beyond precision and scale to continuity and autonomy,Continue reading “Issues”
What We’re Watching
Missed Auto Loan Payments on the Rise
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…
Office Defaults in NYC Cause Uptick in CMBS Delinquencies
The double-digit rise in commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) delinquencies for September was mainly due to two office building loan defaults in Manhattan. New 60-day-plus delinquencies rose by…
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…
Canada to Invest More Domestically
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…
Economic Outlook Improves
Pulling from the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) quarterly surveys, Reuters reports that the U.S. economic outlook has improved slightly even under geopolitical pressures. Projected economic growth…
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