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.

President Biden plans to nominate Alanna McCargo to be the next president of Ginnie Mae; Credit Suisse’s warehouse lending securitization involving non-QMs upsized.

Nonbanks, risky or not for the MBS market? Ginnie Mae’s new capital proposal may finally settle the question. If it becomes final...