Jumbo and nonprime MBS production is having its best year since the financial crisis but growing pains are clear, according to experts at the Residential Mortgage Finance Symposium sponsored by the Structured Finance Industry Group in New York this week.
Originations of fix-and-flip bridge loans have increased significantly in recent years and the collateral could soon be included in MBS with credit ratings. A handful of unrated deals backed by the loans have been issued with limited notice.
Companies that specialize in whole-loan trading are looking at a somewhat brighter future thanks to increasing volumes in the expanded-credit market, but it remains to be seen whether trading desks will return to the halcyon days of the pre-crisis environment.
The Structured Finance Industry Group continues to wrestle with the demons of the past, the myriad issues that contributed to the downfall of the MBS and ABS markets a decade ago. Individuals working on various workstreams offered progress reports, stressing that the project is focused on best practices rather than rigid standards, at the group’s Residential Mortgage Finance Symposium in New York this week.
loanDepot, one of the nation’s largest nonbank home lenders, has come to market with a $300 million warehouse-related securitization for its Mello digital lending division. Three of the deal’s five tranches have received ratings from Moody’s Investors Service. The other two were not rated.
One large fixed income investor is working with clients now to make sure they’re prepared to invest in the new single security when it rolls out next summer. Western Asset Management is advising investors to consider aggregating their mortgage concentration and exposure limits for the uniform MBS that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will issue in the to-be-announced market.
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