Pingora Loan Servicing, Matrix Financial Services and Arvest Bank were the top acquirers of GSE servicing through co-issuance over the first nine months of the year.
The Cato Institute said the former Freddie executive Anthony “Buddy” Piszel consistently received exemplary performance reviews and was cleared of any wrongdoing…
New issuance of commercial mortgage securities increased substantially during the third quarter, with both the private and agency sectors posting solid gains, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis. A total of $53.14 billion of income properties were securitized during the third quarter, a 33.4 percent increase from the previous period and the strongest three-month output since the second quarter of last year. That brought year-to-date issuance to $137.74 billion, off 12.4 percent from the pace set in the first nine months of 2015, and it would take a huge fourth-quarter surge for the market to reach last year’s total. Non-agency commercial MBS production rose...[Includes one data table]
Fannie Mae this week joined Freddie Mac in announcing a front-end credit-risk transfer pilot that will use additional levels of private mortgage insurance, but the so-called deep MI option looks like a long shot. “Credit-risk transfer is the next big thing, and though we’re already three years into it, it’s still very much a work in progress,” said Donald Layton, Freddie’s CEO, during the annual convention of the Mortgage Bankers Association in Boston this week. “About 50 percent of the credit risk that’s coming in is...
Bayview Financial is set to issue the first re-securitization backed by subordinate tranches from risk-sharing deals issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Fitch Ratings placed an A-minus rating on the planned $159.60 million Bayview Opportunity Master Fund IVb Trust 2016-CRT1. The transaction is backed by 12 securities from Fannie’s Connecticut Avenue Securities transactions and Freddie’s Structured Agency Credit Risk transactions issued in 2014 and 2015. The securities in the re-securitization are CAS M2 and STACR M3 tranches. All but one of the underlying securities rely...
Thanks to increasing market demand and two expansions of their scorecard caps courtesy of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could do more than $100 billion in combined issuance of multifamily MBS by the end of 2016 – if they have a strong December, that is. According to Inside MBS & ABS figures, Fannie’s new multifamily MBS issuance in the first nine months of 2016 was up 18.4 percent from the same period last year. Josh Seiff, vice president of multifamily capital markets and trading at Fannie, was...
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