A new nonprime mortgage-backed security from Invictus Capital Partners varies in some ways from the deal the firm issued in February. Invictus is set to issue the $241.00 million Verus Securitization Trust 2017-2. The deal the firm issued in the first quarter – the first MBS from Invictus – was for $145.02 million. The purchase-mortgage share in the new deal is down sharply compared with the previous MBS from Invictus, at 46.0 percent compared with 68.3 percent. The cash-out refinance ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau needs to do more to address problems with the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure rule, according to participants in the non-agency market. The final rule issued this month by the CFPB was seen as helpful but insufficient. The final rule from the CFPB clarified some issues and formalized some guidance. The Structured Finance Industry Group said uncertainty regarding TRID violations persists. “SFIG applauds the efforts of the CFPB to ...

The $210.45 million mortgage-backed security Angel Oak Capital Advisors issued earlier this month had the tightest execution of any MBS backed by non-qualified mortgages, according to Sreeni Prabhu, Angel Oak’s co-CEO and CIO. “We believe investors like Angel Oak’s vertically integrated issuer model,” Prabhu said. “This is unique in the marketplace and offers them a ‘pure play’ exposure to Angel Oak’s origination and underwriting capabilities.” ... [Includes six briefs]

Issuance of nonprime mortgage-backed securities skyrocketed in the second quarter, and analysts anticipate that the market is set for more growth. A total of $1.08 billion of MBS backed by newly originated nonprime mortgages was issued in the second quarter of 2017, according to Inside Nonconforming Markets. It was the strongest post-crisis quarter for the sector, which has been percolating since the second half of 2015. Issuance in the April-June cycle ... [Includes one data chart]

Issuance of prime non-agency mortgage-backed securities cooled off somewhat in the second quarter of 2017 after a relatively strong showing in the previous period. Three deals totaling $1.88 billion were issued in the second quarter, a 27.6 percent drop from the first three months of the year, according to Inside Nonconforming Markets. However, activity in the first half of this year outpaced the first half of 2016, as the dollar volume of issuance was ... [Includes one data chart]

A unit of Angel Oak Companies issued its largest nonprime mortgage-backed security this week. The deal comes shortly after a significant amount of mortgages from Angel Oak were included in a separate nonprime MBS from Deephaven Mortgage. The $210.45 million Angel Oak Mortgage Trust I LLC 2017-2 received AAA ratings from DBRS and S&P Global Ratings. Angel Oak has issued three other nonprime MBS, the largest of which was a $150.35 million transaction in 2015 ...

Flagstar Bank recently received assessments by Fitch Ratings of the bank’s origination platform and servicing operations. The ratings could signal increased involvement in the jumbo mortgage-backed security market by Flagstar. Fitch assigned an “average” rating to Flagstar’s origination platform. “Notable strengths of Flagstar’s origination platform include its experienced senior management team and staff, robust loan sourcing strategy, and comprehensive underwriting ...

A resolution of the charges against Ocwen Financial brought by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and state regulators is expected to be “protracted,” according to industry analysts. In April, the CFPB and state regulators took a number of actions against the nonbank, alleging servicing- and lending-related violations. Ocwen is appealing the findings. The legal issues prompted mixed reactions from rating services. Fitch Ratings affirmed its B- issuer-default rating for ...

The prepayment rate on vintage jumbo mortgages serviced by Wells Fargo is outpacing the industry average by a wide margin, according to an analysis by Bank of America Merrill Lynch. A lower level of loan modifications by Wells appears to be driving the trend. BAML noted that prepayment rates on jumbo mortgages in vintage non-agency mortgage-backed securities have followed a stable trend in the last three years. However, since 2013, Wells-serviced jumbo fixed-rate ...

Efforts in the Senate to reform the government-sponsored enterprises appear likely to include a government guarantee for whatever replaces the current system involving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. “It seems to me that the consolidation is coming around the fact that we do need to have an explicit [catastrophic] guarantee,” said Sen. Bob Corker, R-TN. “We need to acknowledge that it’s going to be there.” He made the statement last week at a hearing on housing-finance reform by the ...