Vandad Fartaj will lead capital market initiatives and investment strategies, with an emphasis on mortgage servicing rights.

Interest rates on mortgages increased steadily throughout the second quarter, diminishing demand among non-agency MBS investors to some extent. (Includes data table.)

Some lenders are seeing better execution for GSE-eligible investment-property mortgages in non-agency MBS.

A working group at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners proposed harsh treatment of multi-collateral structured credit investments at insurance companies.

Andrew Davidson & Co. is testing an update to its non-agency mortgage model for investors that incorporates loan-level data from post-2008 loans.

A New York appellate court upheld a ruling that deferred mortgage loan principal payments under a crisis-era loan-modification program should be treated as subsequent recoveries.

Mortgage industry analysts ponder the impact of new Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac disclosures on the MBS and credit-risk transfer markets.

Several themes emerged from the feedback the Securities and Exchange Commission received in response to its concept release on changes to Reg. AB2 disclosure standards for publicly-registered deals.

The trade group envisions a modern records retrieval system that eliminates the need to move the loan documents associated with mortgages that collateralize both agency MBS and non-agency MBS.

Rating services are preparing rating criteria that will consider the impact of loans underwritten using VantageScore 4.0 and FICO 10T.