Is the mortgage IPO market dead? Yes, says consultant Joe Garrett...

An increase in short-term interest rates will have an outsized impact on commercial MBS among structured finance assets, according to Moody’s Investors Service. In a report released last week, the rating service said higher interest rates will be credit negative for existing deal performance and new issuance for commercial MBS and largely neutral for residential MBS and most ABS sectors. As interest rates rise, Moody’s said term default risk on loans backing new issue commercial MBS will increase because the loans’ debt service coverage ratios will be lower than the DSCRs at the time of origination of loans in outstanding deals. “Rates on loans backing new conduit deals will increase, thereby reducing DSCR in relation to a given property’s cash flow,” the rating service said. “New conduit deals are typically backed by loan pools that were originated no more than ...

The report from Potomac Partners bears the good news about FHA...

FBR Capital Markets analysts said the ruling allows the CFPB and the Department of Justice to retain their use of disparate impact under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act...

As the holiday weekend approached, representatives from PIMCO's media department had not returned telephone calls and emails on the matter.

Wells Fargo was the top seller to Freddie Mac in 2Q with $12.6 billion, according to newly compiled figures from Inside Mortgage Finance, but BofA was a somewhat close second...

However, refinance loans continued to account for the lion’s share of GSE business, Inside Mortgage Finance found.

For most HELOCs, the OCC said the end-of-draw period means that monthly payments change from interest-only to amortizing...

A few years back, then FHFA Director Ed DeMarco cut the compensation of the CEOs as a response to lawmaker concerns.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau also is reviewing LPMI, but from a different angle: RESPA and the "discounting" of such policies…