The Treasury Market Practices Group released a white paper identifying how a change in the ownership structure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could impact the broader financial markets.

Combining machine learning techniques with more traditional accounting is making it possible to predict both whether a loan will prepay and when.

A recent paper co-authored by Federal Reserve Governor Stephan Miran identifies several policy changes that would allow the Fed’s SOMA to be reduced by up to $2.13 trillion.

The revised proposals would reduce capital requirements for banks, both for MBS holdings and whole loans in portfolio. The change would provide incentives for banks to retain more originations in portfolio.

One of the GSEs has quietly issued an MBS comprised of loans underwritten using VantageScore 4.0.

Since the Iran war started, interest rates have returned to where they were when President Trump directed the GSEs to purchase $200 billion in MBS and most analysts say GSE reform is now off the table.

Since the U.S. initiated strikes on Iran, mortgage rates and MBS spreads have given up all the ground they gained from the Trump administration’s directive for the GSEs to purchase $200 billion in agency MBS.

The potential rule change would allow banks to redesignate MBS holdings from held-to-maturity to available-for-sale.

Pending proposals from the Fed would impact MBS market; Moody’s looks to rate securitizations of home equity loans.

FHFA quietly increased the cap on the GSEs’ holdings of agency MBS from $40 billion apiece to $225 billion. That’s the same as the cap on their entire retained mortgage portfolios.