A planned nonprime mortgage-backed security from an affiliate of Angel Oak Companies received AAA ratings from DBRS and Fitch Ratings. The $146.47 million deal will include credit enhancement of 46.65 percent on the senior tranche. Fitch said the AAA rating for the deal reflects the satisfactory operational review of the contributing lenders conducted by the rating service, 100.0 percent loan-level due diligence review with no material findings, a “Tier 2” representation-and-warranty framework ...

An affiliate of Galton Funding is preparing to issue a jumbo mortgage-backed security with looser underwriting standards than the super-prime deals that have dominated the jumbo market since the financial crisis. DBRS and Moody’s Investors Service assigned AAA ratings to the planned $254.55 million Galton Funding Mortgage Trust 2017-1. The senior tranche of the MBS will include credit enhancement of 13.50 percent, which is much higher than the 5.00 percent credit enhancement ...

Most major jumbo servicers increased their portfolios in 2016, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside Nonconforming Markets. A group of 30 servicers handled an estimated $921.10 billion in jumbo mortgages as of the end of the year, up 8.7 percent from the end of 2015. Wells Fargo was the top jumbo servicer, with a $279.97 billion portfolio at yearend. While Wells steadily built up its jumbo servicing throughout the year, it lost some ... [Includes one data chart]

Documents have been drawn up to define a deal agent’s responsibilities, a number of firms are willing to be deal agents for new non-agency mortgage-backed securities and some investors insist that the investor-friendly role is necessary. But a deal agent has yet to be included in an MBS. Dmitri Rabin, a vice president of Loomis, Sayles & Company, an investing firm that has pushed the deal-agent concept, conceded that the function doesn’t provide much value in the current environment ...

The two issuers that recently entered the non-agency mortgage-backed security market included loans originated by lenders that haven’t been significant contributors to nonprime MBS or jumbo MBS. The $145.02 million nonprime MBS from Invictus Capital Partners included mortgages from 21 lenders, led by Calculated Risk Analytics with a 26.1 percent share of the dollar volume of loans in the deal. Calculated Risk Analytics does business as Excelerate Capital, a wholesale lender ...

The total unpaid principal balance of subprime mortgages outstanding continued its slow decline in 2016, ending the year at an estimated $255.0 billion, according to Inside Nonconforming Markets. Subprime performance was mixed in the fourth quarter, with the share of loans past due increasing compared with the previous quarter, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Some 14.28 percent of mortgages were past due as of the end of the ... [Includes one data chart]

Potential mortgage borrowers with bad credit or no credit should proceed with caution if they have been offered a subprime mortgage, according to advice from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CFPB published a blog post this week focusing on the homebuying process for people with “poor” credit scores. The post, part of a series on home purchase advice, was authored by Megan Thibos, a policy analyst with the CFPB’s mortgage markets team. The post suggested that ...

The $356.40 million jumbo mortgage-backed security JPMorgan Chase issued in February 2014 has performed well, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency. Since issuance, the rating service said JPMorgan Mortgage Trust 2014-1 has experienced minimal delinquencies, no credit-based loan modifications and no losses. As of the end of January, the MBS had an unpaid principal balance of $202.30 million and one mortgage in the deal was 30 days ... [Includes two briefs]

Originations of non-agency jumbo mortgages declined in two consecutive quarters to end 2016, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside Nonconforming Markets. And while jumbo production was up last year compared with 2016, market share for the sector declined during that time. In recent years, jumbo originations and market share have been on a strong upward trend, though the momentum stalled in the second half of 2016. An estimated ... [Includes one data chart]

JPMorgan Chase is preparing to issue another large non-agency mortgage-backed security, but the deal includes some significant differences compared with the two large portfolio risk-transfer MBS the bank issued last year. The biggest change is that Chase appears to be planning to sell most of the MBS to investors. On the two large portfolio risk-transfer MBS that Chase issued in 2016, the bank retained about 90.0 percent of the issuance. At the time, Chase officials cited ...