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.
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...
Allegations in an impending government MBS fraud case against Moody’s Corp. will likely mirror allegations of fraud and misrepresentation in a 2013 civil suit against Standard & Poor’s, according to industry observers. Moody’s disclosed the expected case in a recent filing of third-quarter earnings results with the Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the credit rating agency, lawsuits are likely pending from both the Department of Justice and state attorneys general over ratings of MBS in the years leading up to the financial crisis. In a letter dated Sept. 29, 2016, the DOJ informed...
Single-family rental securitization is increasing as spreads have recovered after sell-offs seen earlier this year, according to analysts. While issuance volume will likely be down this year compared with recent years, various factors point to relatively strong issuance of SFR securities going forward. Through September, $2.70 billion in SFR securities had been issued in 2016, according to commercial MBS data tracked by Inside MBS & ABS. That compares to $7.17 billion for all of last year. While issuance has lagged this year, Ying Shen, a research analyst at Deutsche Bank Securities, said...
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...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposal to clarify a number of aspects of its TRID disclosure rule does not adequately resolve most of the non-agency secondary mortgage market’s concerns about legal liability, Pacific Investment Management Company said in a recent comment letter to the CFPB. The regulation was designed to harmonize consumer mortgage disclosures, but its unintended consequences have caused big problems in the non-agency secondary market. “The [TRID] rules have raised...
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