Five mortgage industry veterans – including two who worked in the Obama White House – this week floated a new plan aimed at preserving the government guaranty on conventional MBS and ending, once and for all, the uncertainly plaguing the secondary market. In a new white paper entitled “A More Promising Road to GSE Reform,” the authors aim to preserve the government-backed MBS market while merging Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into a new institution called the National Mortgage Reinsurance Corp. But the proposal might be...
A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, ordered the transfer of a case challenging risk-retention rules to the district court because the petitioner sought review of an agency action “in the wrong court.” Writing for the majority, Judge Janice Brown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia shifted the Loan Syndications and Trading Association’s (LSTA) challenge to the lower court for lack of statutory authorization to review the rule. “As it turns out, LSTA’s challenge on the merits will have to wait,” she wrote. Jointly prescribed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the credit risk-retention regulations required...
Proposed standards drafted by due diligence providers for how to handle TRID mortgage disclosure issues could be finalized as soon as next week, according to the Structured Finance Industry Group. TRID compliance violations uncovered by third-party due diligence firms are seen as a major contributor to the slowdown in non-agency mortgage-backed security issuance since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s TRID rule took effect in October. And some have suggested ...
JPMorgan Chase is set to issue a $1.89 billion non-agency mortgage-backed security stocked with prime conforming mortgages and jumbo loans. The deal will allow Chase to sell credit risk on some of the mortgages the bank has originated and retained even though the loans were eligible for sale to the government-sponsored enterprises. Chase Mortgage Trust 2016-1 received preliminary AAA ratings from Fitch Ratings and Moody’s Investors Service last week ...
Issuance in the jumbo mortgage-backed securities market has nearly stopped in the first quarter of 2016, but not all issuers are ready to abandon the sector. “The securitization market has been slow to re-open but there’s a lot of optionality to that business to the extent that the banks’ lust for mortgages on their balance sheets changes in different interest rate environments,” said William Roth, CIO of Two Harbors Investment. “The ability for us to grow that business dramatically is there ...
A proposal this week for how to reform the government-sponsored enterprises included a provision that would allow for an adjustment of the agency share of mortgage financing via loan limits. The loan limit proposal would differ from current practices where the Federal Housing Finance Agency makes increases to the conforming loan limit based on home price trends. The proposal, “A More Promising Road to GSE Reform,” was authored by Jim Parrott, Lewis Ranieri ...
CORRECTION: An update to a story in the March 11 issue of Inside Nonconforming Markets with the headline “Banks’ First-Lien Holdings Increase in 2015” is available at http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com. The story and accompanying ranking were revised because the ranking initially showed numbers from the second quarter of 2015 for the fourth quarter of 2014. Five Oaks Investment said it recently determined ... [Includes five briefs]
Ginnie Mae securitization of jumbo mortgage loans with a VA guaranty rose significantly in 2015 despite a volume drop-off in the fourth quarter, according to Inside FHA/VA Lending’s analysis of agency data. Year-over-year results saw an almost 60 percent increase in Ginnie Mae mortgage securitization backed by VA jumbo loans. This was slightly dampened by 17.1 percent drop in VA MBS production in the fourth quarter from the previous quarter. All top-five VA jumbo securitizers – Wells Fargo, Freedom Mortgage Corp., PennyMac Corp., U.S. Bank, and Quicken Loans – reported significant drops quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year. Wells Fargo delivered a total of $5.0 billion in VA jumbo loans into Ginnie pools, making it the leading jumbo securitizer in that segment. This accounted for 17.7 percent of the market. Freedom Mortgage ended the year with $2.1 billion in ... [ Charts ]
“Mortgage g-fees should only be used as a buffer against mortgage defaults, not as a piggy-bank for increased government spending,” said NAR chief Salomone.
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