There’s a lack of standardization among non-agency MBS servicers regarding reporting of loans in forbearance. Investors are having difficulties understanding what exactly servicers are doing.

Rating services are requiring higher credit enhancement levels and taking negative actions on outstanding deals due to problems stemming from the coronavirus. Fitch finalized new criteria for residential MBS late last week.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council wants to take a close look at the secondary mortgage market but isn’t letting on about its agenda. Maybe a “housing czar” will come out of this, some wonder.

With overnight funding in the agency repo market hovering around 15 basis points and term repo rates a shade above the one-month LIBOR, yields for agency mREITs could edge upward, KBW analysts predict.

The $413.3 million commercial MBS backed by a portfolio of hotels was originally announced in February but postponed due to market volatility caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Ginnie Mae will soon start accepting electronic promissory notes and other digitized loan files as collateral for its MBS program.

The company believes delivering loans to agency MBS helps it be a “high velocity, capital light and cash generating” operation. This year, the firm has held mortgages on its balance sheet for as few as eight days.

The bulk of loans from the July 6 Term ABS Loan Facility have gone to investors in legacy commercial MBS.

There’s nothing wrong with buying delinquent mortgages out of Ginnie pools, but some issuers may have been getting too greedy during the pandemic.

Federal regulators have delayed their review of risk-retention requirements until next year. Also, most regulatory actions planned for MBS and ABS fall into the “long-term” category.