However, Nationstar, as a master servicer, provides trustees with more than 200 data fields a month regarding loan performance, servicing and more.

But that reticence could be slipping. As the week opened, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury was at 1.94 percent, the highest it has been in several weeks.

Forty-six different lenders contributed to the MBS led by Quicken Loans with a 39.1 percent share...

Some factions of the industry have expressed a concern about the “liquidity language” in the FHFA proposal, but that’s not a concern for Pingora's Lau.

Although there’s been plenty of talk about the securitization of nonprime loans that don’t fit the qualified mortgage criteria finally taking off this year, it’s not looking like a good bet. “We can’t do a security this year,” said Jeff Lemieux, vice president at Bayview Asset Management, which has been actively buying non-QM product geared toward the self-employed. Bayview is purchasing...

To bring the ABS to market the credit enhancement on the transaction is a hefty 23.50 percent.

Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie produced $85.18 billion of new single-family MBS during the month of January.

Michael Stegman, a counselor to the Treasury on housing finance policy, said the exercise aims to solve the “chicken-and-egg” issue that some see as holding back non-agency MBS activity.

New issuance of single-family MBS by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae fell 4.6 percent from December to January, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS ranking and analysis. The three agencies produced $85.18 billion of new single-family MBS last month. The good news is that was up a hefty 24.3 percent from January 2014; the bad news is January 2014 came toward the end of a nine-month swoon in agency MBS production. All of the decline in monthly MBS issuance resulted...[Includes two data charts]

The Department of Justice and other allied parties this week reached a $1.375 billion settlement with Standard & Poor’s to resolve allegations that the firm’s investment-grade ratings misled investors into buying securities backed by badly underwritten mortgages. The agreement resolves the DOJ’s 2013 lawsuit against S&P and its parent, McGraw Hill Financial Inc., along with the suits filed by 19 states and the District of Columbia. Each of the lawsuits alleges that investors incurred substantial losses on residential MBS and collateralized debt obligations that carried S&P’s ‘AAA’ ratings, which effectively masked their true credit risks. S&P was accused...