July pushed year-to-date issuance to a stunning $1.512 trillion. The market is on track to top $2.5 trillion by the time 2020 is over, which would smash the current annual record of $2.130 trillion set in 2003.
With FHA late payments accelerating in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, all eyes turn to the financial health of the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund. Is it time to worry?
The deal received preliminary AAA ratings from Moody’s Investors Service and S&P Global Ratings, with credit enhancement of 13.75% on the senior tranche.
However, despite the bad news on late payments and set-asides, MGIC wrote new insurance on $28.2 billion of residential product, an impressive sequential gain of 55.5%.
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