MBS trading volumes fell in August, marking the lowest reading of the year. A summer respite or something else?

Will the new, forward-looking, credit-sensitive version of the Secured Overnight Financing Rate serve as the index rate for credit-risk transfer and MBS transactions?

Securitization issuers should carefully monitor and mitigate potential cyberattacks as a way to help preserve the credit quality of a structured finance transaction, S&P said in a recent report.

After a lapse at the beginning of the pandemic, commercial PACE lending and the associated ABS offerings have grown steadily.

The Fed could end its stimulus-related purchases of agency MBS by the middle of 2022; S&P official provides an example of just how conservative rating services can be when assessing non-agency MBS and ABS.

Some of the Trump-era restrictions placed on the GSEs have been put on hold for at least a year. That includes a cap on acquisitions of mortgages for investment properties.

The blueprint would reverse capital requirements set in December, which offered few incentives for the GSEs to complete credit-risk transfer transactions.

Wells Fargo stocked its latest prime non-agency MBS with conforming jumbo mortgages and Redwood Trust is using blockchain technology in its new deal.

The SFA is working to establish a standards-setting organization that would help increase investments in non-QMs. And the association wants prime non-agency MBS to be included in any future revival of TALF.

A $45 million investment banking contract hangs in the balance as the FHFA maneuvers the future of Fannie and Freddie.