New rating criteria for securitizations of residential transition loans have helped increase uniformity across recent issuance.

Money managers overweight with agency MBS are looking to reduce their exposure, creating new investment opportunities for other segments of investors.

The smoothie maker has some differing characteristics compared with other fast-food operators with whole-business ABS.

Residential MBS is projected to do fairly well during a mild economic downturn, while auto and student loan ABS may experience some issues, according to projections by Moody’s Investor Service.

Originations from Rocket Mortgage and Rate helped increase issuance of prime non-agency MBS in the second quarter. (Includes three data tables.)

A rise in securitization of expanded-credit mortgages from Annaly Capital Management and Invictus Capital Partners helped the ECM securities market grow in the second quarter. (Includes three data tables.)

The pooling of about $100 million of SBA loans should provide economies of scale to smaller lenders.

Second-quarter Ginnie Mae securitization growth was strongest among purchase-loan originations. But refis picked up steam over 2023. (Includes four data tables.)

Most of the noncore categories where the GSEs are active lagged overall market growth. The one that didn’t: conforming jumbos. (Includes data table.)

The decline was driven by loans eligible for sale to the government-sponsored enterprises along with FHA and VA mortgages.