Investors are increasingly interested in financing mortgage servicing rights and investing in ex-cess servicing spread strips, according to the law firm of Hunton & Williams. The firm helped a number of companies structure MSR financing transactions last year.
Although the stars might be aligned for legislative reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac this year, new developments late this week illuminate the difficulty of the task at hand.
A huge rebound in securitization of credit-card receivables in 2017 helped boost the non-mortgage ABS market to a significant 21.2 percent increase in new issuance, according to a new rank-ing and analysis by Inside MBS & ABS.