Changes to Common Securitization Solutions, including being renamed U.S. Financial Technology, appear to set the company up to serve additional secondary mortgage market participants.
Due diligence firms can use the review scope to assess seasoned residential mortgages, assigning positive grades for loans with 36 months of strong performance.
Reps. Ann Wagner, R-MO, and Brad Sherman, D-CA, raised concerns of the securitization industry with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. They aim to influence a proposal to implement changes to capital requirements for large banks.
FINRA received approval from the SEC to shorten reporting requirements for most trades of MBS and ABS from within 15 minutes to within one minute of a deal having transpired.
SFA restarted its RMBS Symposium event this week, with an agenda driven by issues under consideration at committees and task forces within the association.
Ginnie issuers say cyber reporting standards are too onerous; SEC fines CLO manager; SEC fines rating services for inadequate recordkeeping; T-Mobile ABS sputters; DoubleLine reduces management fee.
A task force at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners recommended adoption of a proposal to alter credit ratings on investments at insurance companies. However, NAIC didn’t move forward with the proposal at a meeting last week.
Researchers show that an increase in uncertainty about the Fed’s balance sheet policy boosts the yield on long-term Treasuries and increases the duration of non-agency MBS.
The non-agency market could gain from a reduction in GSE loan limits, revision in capital requirements for banks and updated requirements for publicly registered securitizations.