Issuance of jumbo mortgage-backed securities flourished at the start of the year, prompting projections that volume could double compared with 2017, but the market isn’t expected to grow to anywhere near pre-crisis levels. Baron Silverstein, a managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, said he expects to see more issuers enter the maket and that issuance could hit $20.0 billion this year. He was speaking at the SFIG Vegas conference produced by Information Management Network and ...
After issuing two jumbo mortgage-backed securities in 2017 on a shelf created by Credit Suisse, an affiliate of AIG Asset Management is launching a deal on its own. Pearl Street Mortgage Company 2018-1 looks a lot like previous AIG deals save for the change in shelf registration. However, the planned $446.17 million issuance will have somewhat higher credit enhancement on the senior tranche than the other MBS. The new issuance received preliminary AAA ratings from Fitch Ratings and ...
Embrace Home Loans hired a former official from Deephaven Mortgage to serve as director of mortgage product innovation. Deephaven has focused its correspondent production on non-qualified mortgages while Embrace is looking to expand its retail products. Parkes Dibble, the new hire, was previously a vice president of capital markets product development at Deephaven. Embrace said Dibble will lead efforts to strengthen the “depth and breadth” of ... [Includes two briefs]
Ginnie Mae is considering a risk-sharing pilot that would have private capital absorb some of the potential losses on FHA loans securitized through the agency. In remarks at the Structured Finance Industry Group conference in Las Vegas recently, Michael Bright, executive vice president and chief operating officer with Ginnie, said no decision has been made on any credit-enhancement structure, as consultations with stakeholders are still ongoing. “We are actively looking at structures we can put in place where we bring in private capital to provide a [partial] guarantee,” explained Bright, Ginnie’s acting president. “The FHA is going be involved in a lot of them.” A risk-share partnership between FHA and private credit enhancers not only would protect the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund but reduce taxpayer risk as well, observers said. The risk-sharing concept would have private mortgage insurers assuming ...
The volume of FHA and VA loans securitized in Ginnie Mae pools in 2017 declined from the previous year, according to an analysis of agency data. FHA loans delivered into Ginnie mortgage-backed securities last year totaled $250.5 billion, down 8.7 percent from 2016. Purchase loans comprised 69.6 percent of Ginnie MBS issuances backed by FHA loans over the 12- month period, while refinances accounted for 24.8 percent. FHA borrowers had an average FICO score of 675.3, suggesting a more traditional borrower base of first-time homebuyers and borrowers with credit issues. The FHA loans that were securitized had an average loan-to-value ratio of 92.8 percent and a debt-to-income ratio of 41.3 percent. California led all states in FHA mortgage securitization, with $39.0 billion for all of last year. FHA originations, however, dropped 16.6 percent year-over-year. The other top states in terms of ... [ charts ]
Whatever happened to the “niceness” pledge that Carson wanted everyone there to take? Certainly, if there’s a need for niceness at HUD, it might be now…
According to a tally from Inside MBS & ABS, RBS/Greenwich Capital ranked second among all subprime MBS underwriters that brought deals to market from 2004 to 2007 with $261 billion.
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