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 ...

The first nonprime mortgage-backed security from an affiliate of Invictus Capital Partners will be stocked with loans that have some unique features. Kroll Bond Rating Agency, Morningstar Credit Ratings and S&P Global Ratings placed preliminary AAA ratings on the deal last week. The planned $145.02 million Verus Securitization Trust 2017-1 differs in a number of ways from the $225.75 million COLT 2016-3 Mortgage Loan Trust, the nonprime MBS from an affiliate of Lone Star Funds ...

An affiliate of Galton Funding is preparing to issue a non-agency mortgage-backed security that will include non-qualified mortgages, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Galton Funding acquires mortgages on a correspondent basis. The firm is part of Galton Capital Group, which is the residential mortgage investment group within Mariner Investment Group. Mariner is a New York-based investment advisor that manages about ...

Fitch Ratings recently assigned “average” assessments to three originators and aggregators involved in the nonprime mortgage market, the same grades the firm assigned to Caliber Home Loans. Fitch evaluated Angel Oak Home Loans, Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions and Citadel Servicing as originators of nonprime mortgages. And the rating service reviewed Deephaven Mortgage as an aggregator of nonprime mortgages. The assessments by Fitch will help pave the way for ...