According to a copy of an early prospectus provided to IMF, lenders originating loans for the security include Nationstar Mortgage, Stearns Lending, Freedom Mortgage, Fifth Third Mortgage, Real Estate Mortgage Network and RMR Financial.
Citadel, which raised $200 million earlier in the year, has funded $18 million so far this year, but 40 percent of that has come in October. Eventually, it hopes to securitize its production.
CFPB chief Richard Cordray believes "the QM space has been drawn quite broadly" and estimates that more than 95 percent of the loans made in the current market will be deemed qualified mortgages.
Shellpoint Partners this week pulled the plug on its second jumbo non-agency MBS issuance of the year and will instead sell the mortgages as whole loans. Shellpoint Asset Funding Trust 2013-2 was initially offered as a $308.64 million deal in September. The company then reduced the offering to a $250.85 million securitization with a number of tweaks aimed at attracting investors. In the end, the company couldn’t structure...
Bank of America is putting up a strong defense and plans on whittling down the settlement price in a Federal Housing Finance Agency non-agency MBS fraud case against the company, sources close to the matter told Inside MBS & ABS. One official close to the due-diligence team working for BofA said the regulator seeks a $13 billion payment to settle charges that the bank and two companies it bought during the housing meltdown – Countrywide Financial Corp. and Merrill Lynch – sold faulty nonprime MBS to the government-sponsored enterprises. This source, who spoke under the condition his name not be published, said...[Includes one data chart]
Investors shying away from new jumbo MBS have expressed strong interest in the risk-sharing transactions offered by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Demand for the transactions has been so high recently that some analysts are recommending that investors could see better returns from vintage non-agency MBS. Fannie Mae said about 75 investors initially bought into the $675 million in non-guaranteed bonds it offered, and Freddie Mac said about 50 investors initially bought into the $500 million in non-guaranteed bonds it offered. “The deal has been very well received...
A total of $33.16 billion of commercial MBS – including agency MBS backed by multifamily mortgages – were issued during the third quarter of 2013, a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis reveals.
Speaking at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington Thursday afternoon, FHFA Acting Director Edward DeMarco gave no hint how much of a reduction might be in store. He also took no questions from the audience.
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