Industry participants are confident that the non-agency market can absorb some GSE mortgages that will otherwise be subject to higher fees; SFA highlights ABS LIBOR complication; Credit Suisse modifies MBS issued in 2019; New Residential set to issue single-family rental securitization.

REITs continue to buy agency MBS but carry a caveat: The sector is shrinking in terms of asset size. Investors who are contrarian at heart might want to start nibbling on some of these stocks.

ABS East attendance declined this year; non-agency MBS issuers saw weaker demand in November as supply spiked; GSE g-fees didn’t vary much based on seller size in 2020.

Six federal regulators tasked with overseeing risk-retention requirements for residential MBS decided to leave the standards unchanged after a two-year-long review.

Some investors in MBS and ABS are ready to discard data collected in the past two years due to distortions from actions by the federal government. One problem: projecting asset performance moving forward.

The Fed will reduce its purchases of agency MBS more quickly than initially planned; the Senate confirmed Alanna McCargo as Ginnie Mae’s president; Parthenon Capital Partners will acquire a majority stake in Kroll Bond Rating Agency; KBRA raises concerns about non-agency MBS due diligence sampling practices; United Wholesale offers its first non-agency jumbo MBS.

Securitization rates drifted lower in the third quarter in most segments of the mortgage market, and primary-market originations of agency-eligible loans declined. (Includes data chart.)

The latest MBS from Blackstone includes non-agency mortgages for investment properties from various lenders. The firm’s pre-pandemic non-agency MBS were backed by loans from Finance of America.

The House passes legislation to help address legacy contracts for MBS and ABS tied to LIBOR; the SEC expands payment methods for various filing fees; transportation ABS is performing well despite supply chain issues.

UWM has its own non-agency MBS shelf, allowing the lender/servicer to directly issue deals. However, the company continues to contribute mortgages to non-agency MBS issued by others.