The new documentation process eliminates the need for recordation and title insurance, with certain exceptions, for servicers participating in FHA’s COVID-19-related advanced loan-modification program.

Margin requirements for trading GSE MBS are on the way; the Fed will end its stimulus-related purchases of agency MBS in March; JPM readies its largest jumbo MBS since 2016.

Fannie and Freddie have yet to release a date for their fourth-quarter results, but 4Q was likely a tad shy of 3Q. Credit stable interest rates and decent MBS volumes.

It wasn’t a pretty month for MBS trades. And with interest rates rising, the age-old question looms: Where do we go from here?

Six issuers offered expanded-credit MBS in recent days, ending a nearly 30-day pause in issuance. Loans in the deals have seasoned for longer than the turn times seen for prime non-agency MBS.

Fannie and Freddie issued essentially zero long-term debt in 2021, dramatically lowering their total outstanding debt.

The new Choice Lease program targets low- to medium-income individuals and is offering below market rents.

Market growth in 2022, though more restrained than in 2021, should give Fannie and Freddie plenty of runway to hit their multifamily caps for the year.

SFVegas pushed back to July; commercial MBS delinquencies rise for first time in more than a year; Fannie obtains ratings for older CRTs; Verizon to issue more ABS tied to cellphone payment plans.

Sandra Thompson, Biden’s nominee for FHFA director, gives a deft performance at her Senate confirmation hearing.