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.”
Dave Paulson, CEO of the FHLB of Pittsburgh, pointed out that, prior to the 2023 banking crisis, many FHLBank officials didn’t know who their direct contact was at the Fed.