The mortgage industry keeps pining for a rate cut but so far the Fed has resisted. This week, a hotter-than-anticipated CPI reading stalled momentum on the rate front and MBS prices headed lower.

The diversification inherent in MBS may be the ideal tool to combat climate risk in housing finance.

The top three MBS issuers in February: UWM, PennyMac and Rocket Mortgage.

Ratings for MBS with residential transition loans are helping to increase investor demand.

Cardinal Financial plans to offer the industry’s first security backed by VA mortgages scored with FICO 10 T.

Ed DeMarco, the former acting director of the FHFA, was among a handful of panelists at the SFVegas conference this week who called for more standardization in the non-agency MBS market.

Finance of America to issue MBS backed by jumbo reverse mortgages; Aslan teams with Calque; 5th Street Capital licensed in Wyoming.

Attendance at the SFVegas conference this year hit another record. Demand for MBS and ABS is exceptionally strong, with few concerns on the immediate horizon.

New prohibitions against conflicts of interest in the MBS and ABS market will take effect in June 2025. But SEC officials are urging industry participants to raise compliance concerns, if any, as soon as possible.

If the central bank was required to mark its securities holdings to market, it would be more than $1 trillion in the hole, according to a new research paper.