The Mortgage Bankers hailed the bill for supporting a number of MBA priorities and for rejecting an administration proposal to fund FHA technology upgrades through a fee on lenders.

Craig Dwight, Horizon Bancorp’s chairman and CEO, indicated that the TRID mortgage disclosure rule had an impact on warehouse lending during the quarter.

The delinquency rate declined by 8.4 percent in March compared with February and was down 12.4 percent on an annual basis.

The GAO says the consumer regulator lacks comprehensive statistics due to external data constraints, and collecting this information is challenging...

“Investors are taking the conservative approach,” said the Morrison & Foerster attorney. “No one wants to be the test case. They’re all worried about what a court might say.”

Roughly $41.42 billion of non-mortgage ABS were issued in the first quarter, up 35.8 percent from the unusually low volume at the end of 2015.

Altavera chief Brian Simons said staffing requests suggest the industry is preparing for an increase in non-QM business.

Thanks to a resurgence of deals backed by vehicle-related financing, non-mortgage ABS production rebounded strongly in the first three months of 2016, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis and ranking. But ABS issuance levels came up well short of the volume generated during the first three months of last year, and a few key segments continued to limp along. A total of $41.42 billion of non-mortgage ABS were issued...[Includes two data tables]

The average daily trading volume in agency MBS fell to $189.4 billion in March, the lowest reading of the year, and a sign that liquidity may still be an issue, depending on which seat you’re in. According to figures compiled by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the trading numbers for 2016, so far, haven’t exactly lit the world on fire. In January and February, the readings were $195.1 billion and $201.4 billion, respectively. Last year, the best reading was...

A lender that focuses on investment properties is preparing to issue a non-agency MBS backed by adjustable-rate mortgages on residential and commercial properties. The deal shares some characteristics with non-agency MBS backed by new loans, but it’s different in a lot of ways. The planned $358.60 million Velocity Commercial Capital 2016-1 received provisional AAA ratings this week from Kroll Bond Rating Agency. Residential properties account for 55.3 percent of the collateral, with small commercial properties making up the rest. All of the mortgages backing the planned MBS are for investment properties. Velocity Commercial Capital issued...