Will the new, forward-looking, credit-sensitive version of the Secured Overnight Financing Rate serve as the index rate for credit-risk transfer and MBS transactions?

Securitization issuers should carefully monitor and mitigate potential cyberattacks as a way to help preserve the credit quality of a structured finance transaction, S&P said in a recent report.

The Fed could end its stimulus-related purchases of agency MBS by the middle of 2022; S&P official provides an example of just how conservative rating services can be when assessing non-agency MBS and ABS.

Some of the Trump-era restrictions placed on the GSEs have been put on hold for at least a year. That includes a cap on acquisitions of mortgages for investment properties.

The blueprint would reverse capital requirements set in December, which offered few incentives for the GSEs to complete credit-risk transfer transactions.

Investors in Freddie’s new When-Issued K-Deal have the right to exchange them for K-deal A-M certificates to be issued in the future.

A $45 million investment banking contract hangs in the balance as the FHFA maneuvers the future of Fannie and Freddie.

Freddie topped Fannie in single-family MBS issuance for the first time since late 2005 as a heavy flow of refinance business boosted the agency market in August. (Includes two data charts.)

Nonbanks, risky or not for the MBS market? Ginnie Mae’s new capital proposal may finally settle the question. If it becomes final...

Experts say a modest taper in Fed MBS purchases is unlikely to have a serious impact on bond prices or the housing market.