Issuance of VA cash-out refis with high loan-to-value ratios could drop 50% this year due to pooling restrictions imposed by Ginnie in November. VA’s lower-LTV cash-out tiers are expected to pick up the slack.
Many analysts anticipated the implementation of CECL would balloon the loan loss reserves of the GSEs. Last week, though, both enterprises downplayed CECL’s potential impact on first-quarter earnings.
In efforts to move from LIBOR to SOFR, the GSEs informed market participants to expect new language on all single-family uniform adjustable-rate mortgage instruments that close on or after June 1.
A coalition of state AGs and Hawaii’s Office of Consumer Protection urged the OCC to withdraw a proposed rule that would confer federal preemption privileges on unregulated nonbanks.
The percentage of private mortgage insurance sales tied to the GSEs’ low-downpayment programs dropped from 20% in July to 12% in December, with industry players pinning the fall on lower income thresholds.
Trade groups are wary that any capital rule issued after May could be over-turned if Democrats win the White House and control of Congress in the next election.
The Mortgage Bankers Association recommended changes to Ginnie Mae’s proposed Digital Collateral Guidance to clarify requirements for accepting digital promissory notes and other documents.
The key factor for TBA investors is prepayment speeds. A quick scan of the FHFA data show that the conditional prepayment rates for UMBS issued by Fannie and those issued by Freddie have remained comparable since the launch of the single security in June.
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