Secondary market prices are firming up for non-QM whole loans, but there is chatter among investors that early-stage delinquencies are on the rise. A blip on the radar screen or something else?

Morningstar DBRS assigned a preliminary A rating to the deal that includes 370 short-term loans with a principal balance of $158.4 million.

Credit unions have found a way to unload low-coupon agency-quality mortgages through participation deals. MIAC is working on a $100 million transaction.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners is working to establish a process that would allow the regulator to alter the ratings assigned to certain MBS and ABS held by insurance companies.

New metrics are required to quantify the risk of climate change and rising hazard insurance costs on collateral in MBS.

Fed stays course on MBS sales; SFA close to revising data tape for prime non-agency MBS; MBS on watch for rating upgrades by Fitch; subprime auto ABS impairments rise; commercial MBS delinquencies decline; Fannie sees tighter spreads for latest CRT; Morningstar not ready to give positive commercial MBS credit for “mass timber” construction.

Nonbanks are fueling securitization of home-equity lines-of-credit, closed-end second liens and home equity investments. Issuance jumped in 2023 as refi business dried up. (Includes two data tables.)

Participants in the MBS and ABS market have widespread concerns about a proposal to adjust capital requirements for large banks. They argue that the proposed capital requirements are unnecessarily high.

Three non-agency MBS hit the market this week and more deals are in the pipeline.

More nonbanks are ready to take the HELOC plunge, using the MBS market as leverage. Among them: Homebridge and Angel Oak.