Invictus has launched a new business to provide insurance companies with access to residential loans.

Close to half of the prime non-agency MBS volume in the market since early May has been in GSE-eligible mortgages. Rocket Mortgage is the latest issuer with a GSE-eligible offering, including a number of loans with eNotes.

Initial partners for Figure’s new marketplace include The Loan Store, Movement Mortgage, Bayview Asset Management and Saluda Grade.

As AI becomes ubiquitous in both the origination and securitization of loans, the U.S. regulatory framework is likely to evolve closer to the stricter rules used in the European Union.

Select Portfolio Servicing is one of the largest non-agency MBS servicers in the nation — and it’s on the auction block once again.

Goldman is a leading issuer of prime non-agency MBS and an issuer of expanded-credit deals. The firm aggregates loans from various lenders for securitization.

Fitch Ratings expects CDFIs to sell more of their production in the secondary market due to rising interest rates and a shift by banks to tighten underwriting standards.

SIFMA warned that Freddie’s proposal to acquire second liens could pose risks to the to-be-announced, credit-risk transfer and consumer-loan markets. SFA said the proposal, if approved, should be limited.

Demand in the secondary market for non-qualified mortgages is helping to fuel originations of the loans. Delinquencies in the sector have ticked up but aren’t yet a major concern.

A new Optimal Blue whitepaper details the need for a LIBOR alternative in the secondary market for non-QM loans.