The MBS market can expect a push from increased availability of mortgages and improvements to ABS performance.

More non-agency originations, lower market share of non-QMs and securitization of riskier loans are likely consequences of the CFPB’s new QM standards.

Issuance of rated non-agency MBS and ABS rose significantly during the third quarter, although both markets continued to lag behind 2019 on year-to-date volume. (Includes two data charts.)

Word is out: Money can be made in the Ginnie EBO space. The strategy is attracting investment funds but it’s not as easy as you might think.

The deal bears many of the characteristics of previous front-end credit-risk transfer deals that PennyMac entered into with Fannie Mae.

Speakers at this year’s ABS East conference — held online — focused on how the coronavirus impacted assets and the outlook for 2021.

Investors helped nonbank servicers with their advancing obligations for delinquent mortgages this year, but the outlook is murky.

Whether its warehouse borrowing or debt restructuring, the capital markets remain a favorable place to be for nonbank lender/servicers.

Freddie issued its first multifamily K-deal in which both the floating-rate bonds and the underlying mortgages are indexed to SOFR.

The agency MBS market is on track to securitize over $2 trillion of refinance loans and $1 trillion of purchase mortgages in 2020. Nonbanks accounted for over 70% of new issuance in recent months. (Includes two data charts.)