“There’s a tremendous economic incentive to adopt VantageScore, it’s just gonna take some time to work it through,” said Chris Cartwright, CEO of TransUnion.
Delinquency rates on mortgages with debt-to-income ratios above 43% are only slightly higher than delinquency rates on mortgages overall, according to a new analysis by Moody’s Ratings.
“If [the GSEs] are going to distribute them into securities,” said Bose George, a managing director of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, “I assume there’ll be some sort of pay-up for these loans, because people don’t know the performance yet.”