The Mortgage Bankers Association has asked the SEC to review the margin requirements in Rule 4210, arguing that lenders use to-be-announced securities to hedge their interest rate exposure rather than for speculation purposes.

It could be years before the Fed sells any of its holdings of agency MBS, according to John Williams, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Cybersecurity disclosure rules for ABS should be focused on primary servicers, the Structured Finance Association said in comments to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Rising interest rates and widening spreads are prompting more investor-friendly changes to expanded-credit MBS deals.

Issuing a non-agency MBS isn’t cheap; trade groups push for data, timeline if GSEs change credit scoring models; Ginnie reiterates its buyout policy.

The rating service’s proposal to notch ratings assigned by rival firms when assessing insurers didn’t sit well with the Justice Department, members of Congress and industry participants.

Volume increased in the risk-transfer deals issued by Freddie and Fannie. However, unpaid principal balance on the covered pools declined. (Includes data chart.)

Moody’s downgraded some of the tranches in loanDepot’s outstanding warehouse financing securitizations even after the company modified the transactions’ governing documents to meet new criteria.

Ginnie Mae President Alanna McCargo wants small banks, credit unions and community development financial institutions to have access to the Ginnie securitization program.

Small lenders may be able to avoid some of the margin requirements by diversifying the pool of broker-dealers they use for hedging.