Most of the prime MBS were garden-variety jumbo deals.

Secondary market analysts speaking on a dv01 panel said that as unemployment increases, borrowers with lower credit scores will see drops in performance. In auto, inflation has reduced access to credit for lower-income borrowers.

Issuance of single-family Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities saw significant declines in the first three months of 2023.

Lenders interviewed by Inside MBS & ABS said they are receiving more buyback requests than before.

Invictus Capital Partners was the top-ranked non-agency MBS issuer in the first quarter.

It was the ninth straight quarterly decline for agency MBS issuance.

2022 marked the first year that net production was negative for the full year since the MBA started its performance survey in 2008.

Relatively low interest rates don't help much if there aren't many homes for sale.

The FDIC plans to sell $114 billion of MBS held by Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.

Originations of mortgages that banks intend to sell decreased more quickly than loan sales by banks in the fourth quarter of 2022.