The Federal Housing Finance Agency will unveil nonbank capital guidelines for servicers by mid-year. Also on the docket: Changes to loan level price adjustments..
Risk weights established by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision for holdings of securitized assets won’t have much of an impact on U.S. banks, according to analysts at Barclays Capital. It’s unclear which banks the risk weights will be applied to and many U.S. banks have transitioned to similar methods to evaluate capital requirements for their holdings of MBS and ABS. The BCBS issued a revised framework for calculating risk weights on banks’ securitization exposures in December. The framework is set to take effect in certain countries beginning in 2018. It was issued to address concerns that banks were holding insufficient capital for certain securitized assets and to reduce the reliance on external ratings to derive securitization risk weights. Barclays said...
More than a year after issuing ratings for the first-ever single-family rental securitization, Moody’s Investors Service has issued its finalized approach for rating such deals. The rating service is also prepared to rate multi-borrower SFR transactions, a type of deal that has yet to be issued. Moody’s analysis of SFR securitizations was previously based largely on the approach the rating service applies to large loan commercial MBS backed by multifamily housing. The new criteria from Moody’s include...
“The bureau welcomes and encourages suggestions of cases as candidates for amicus curiae participation,” said the letter, signed by Meredith Fuchs, general counsel of the CFPB.
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