The application of capital requirements to MBS and other structured finance products in the coming years will likely trump any typical collateral analysis investors currently consider, according to analysts at Standard & Poor’s. In a report published late last week, the analysts said global capital requirements have the potential to become impediments to providing financing via securitized products. “Of particular investor focus recently are...

The trajectory of delinquencies for U.S. timeshare ABS is continuing its downward trend, and issuance is expected to be near or perhaps even exceed last year’s level, with solid prospects for continued stable growth throughout the rest of the year, according to a consensus of industry analysts. U.S. timeshare ABS delinquencies fell again in the second quarter of 2015 to their lowest level in eight years, the latest index results from Fitch Ratings show. Total delinquencies for the second quarter were 2.66 percent, down from 2.79 percent in the first quarter and 2.92 percent a year ago. The ratings service has seen...

loanDepot, LLC, made a big splash in the market this week, becoming the first nonbank lender to begin making ‘A’ paper second liens since the housing bust. The Irvine, CA-based lender fully expects it may soon have competition, but believes by being the first in, it will have a leg up on whichever players enter the fold. However, a quick call to a handful of nonbanks turned up...

Piggyback mortgage financing structures appear to be creeping back into the market, a trend that some observers say could destabilize the industry. Before the financial crisis, many borrowers combined a first-lien mortgage for 80 percent of home value with a second lien of 10 percent or more in order to avoid paying private mortgage insurance. While many first-lien mortgages are still originated with a simultaneous second in recent years, the combined loan-to-value ratio of the two has been capped at 80 percent or less. “From what we’ve seen from lenders who are interested in expanding their customer base, there appears...

More issuers are stepping up to the plate by creating securities collateralized by nonperforming residential loans, but so far the action has mostly taken place in the private-placement market. “There have been a bunch of securitizations of NPLs lately,” one trader told Inside MBS & ABS, “but it’s all been Reg. 144 filings,” a reference to the Securities and Exchange Commission rule that allows for the public resale of restricted collateral if a number of conditions are met ...

Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs this week announced it has set aside $1.45 billion for legal expenses for the second quarter of 2015, bringing its total anticipated legal costs so far to $5.9 billion to settle Department of Justice claims stemming from the sale of vintage non-agency MBS. A good chunk of that figure – $270 million – is expected to be tapped to resolve residential MBS litigation brought by pension funds led by NECA-IBEW Health & Welfare Fund of Illinois ...

Close to one-third of the $154.79 billion in non-agency MBS serviced by Ocwen Financial is subject to potential servicing transfers due to downgrades to the firm’s servicer ratings and actions by investors. However, Ocwen has managed to retain servicing on a vast majority of the 119 deals thus far, helped by the proceeds the company delivers to non-agency MBS investors. Ocwen faces the potential loss of non-agency MBS servicing on two fronts. Some $43.1 billion ...

The first week of August was volatile for MBS prices as investors tried to make sense of the new job numbers and whether the “flight to quality” of U.S. Treasuries and MBS would continue unabated. “The market was very reactionary even to minor news this week,” said Joe Farr, director of sales and marketing for MBS Quoteline. As Inside MBS & ABS went to press, the bid price on the benchmark Fannie Mae 3.50 percent bond was in the neighborhood of 103.43 ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reduced their retained mortgage portfolios by a combined $44.4 billion during the second quarter, a period during which the government-sponsored enterprises posted substantial increases in net earnings. Freddie Mac’s non-agency MBS holdings declined 11.6 percent, while its un-securitized whole-loan portfolio dropped 3.0 percent. The GSE sold $3.3 billion of non-agency MBS and securitized $2.1 billion of single-family ... [Includes one data chart]

The open market trading desk at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has announced plans to streamline the administration of agency MBS held in the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA). As one of the central bank’s monetary policy tools, the SOMA assists the New York Fed in carrying out open market operations, which acquire the assets that serve as collateral for circulating U.S. currency, a tool for managing reserve balances and ...