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Within the BDCs that Fitch Ratings tracks, such deferrals accounted on average for 8% of their interest and dividend income in 2025, compared with 4% in 2019.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 2, 2026

If that is the case, he argued, stronger defaults — higher starting deferrals, automatic escalation or more aggressive communication — might achieve similar results without layering on an additional 40 basis points annually.

From MarketWatch Feb. 20, 2026

However, Harabedian said that most of the contracts and guidelines of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — the government-sponsored organizations that hold or guarantee the majority of U.S. mortgages — do not bar loan deferrals.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 12, 2026

The change goes further than an original proposal last year, to cut bonus deferrals to five years for senior bankers.

From Barron's Oct. 15, 2025

Talk went around of students, somewhere else in the country, getting deferrals because they’d shown they were in love—and now, just sometimes, the talk was of students with no connections to Hailsham.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro



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