Sprout isn’t returning media inquiries these days, but chatter is spreading about $200 million worth of non-QM loans it was trying to place.

Issuance of expanded-credit MBS slowed in April after a surge in the first quarter. Rising interest rates played a role in both moves.

Annaly is selling its noncore holdings to focus on residential mortgage investments. Its agency MBS business continues to shrink, but not dramatically.

Higher prices on mortgages for highly qualified borrowers could mean more cross-subsidy for less qualified borrowers.

Market participants detail why reverse mortgages, particularly in non-agency MBS, are a compelling investment.

S&P has proposed revisions to its criteria for judging the adequacy of risk-based capital when assessing insurers. The revision would prompt higher capital requirements for certain MBS and ABS held by insurers.

It seems that some non-QM lenders learned a valuable lesson this spring: When in doubt, hedge your production pipeline. Then again, it doesn’t apply to all loan types.

As the non-QM market works out its kinks, deal activity should pick up, despite higher interest rates. Due diligence providers like Clayton are hoping the largess comes their way.

All of the participants in the Fed’s TALF program set up in the early days of the pandemic were so-called opportunistic investors that hadn’t previously been buying AAA-rated deals.

The market decline, in response to the end of QE, has been severe, but much more orderly than in 2013.