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.

Investors can’t seem to get enough non-agency MBS. Issuance is booming and demand is expected to remain elevated thanks to the outlook for interest rates, among other factors.

Ellington Financial plans to increase non-agency issuance. The real estate investment trust last month issued its first non-QM MBS in over a year.

Computershare recently started offering trustee services for MBS. Western Alliance was named as a trustee for a CLO deal.

Rocket’s originations and secondary market sales of home equity loans are flourishing without the GSEs. It’s also not yet clear how large of a role the GSEs would have in the market for closed-end second liens.