Despite protests that existing yield maintenance protects investors from prepayment risk on agency CMBS, FHFA directed the Federal Home Loan Banks to limit their exposure.

Commentators seem to agree that stronger capital positions are good for the Ginnie Mae business in general, but getting there is the hard part.

Will prepayment speeds on agency product continue to decline? No one knows for certain, but the UMBS 2.5 is waiting in the wings to be the new kid in town.

In the past six years, repos backed by MBS nearly doubled to roughly $400 billion a day, a new Federal Reserve study found.

Loans in Freddie multifamily securities rarely default; but when they do, the distribution of those defaults can be quite interesting.

Refinance loans accounted for less than half of the collateral securitized in agency MBS in July for the first time in nearly two years. (Includes two data charts.)

Purchases of refinance loans since December 2020 generated roughly $6.6 billion in adverse market refi fees for Fannie and Freddie, boosting them to a seven-year high in net income in the second quarter. (Includes data chart.)

Why compete against the Fed for agency MBS? Sometimes, shrinking is a better strategy, which is what the mega "mREITs" are doing.

Late last month, inter-dealer brokers began using SOFR for dollar swaps, allowing ARRC to finally recommend use of Term SOFR.