CDFI Proposal Could Impact Non-Agency Players January 31, 2023 Brandon Ivey CDFIs, for now, are exempt from the CFPB's ability-to-repay requirements.Read More
Short Takes: Staying In TPO / An Old M&A Deal That Fell Apart / Rocket and HELOCs / The HPI Goes Negative / Impac Must Pay Up January 31, 2023 Paul Muolo and Brandon Ivey Trouble ahead? The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s home price index went negative (though barely) in November...Read More
Investment Properties Dominate 4Q EC MBS Issuance January 30, 2023 Brandon Ivey Bottom line: Investment-property loans were a bright spot, accounting for nearly 60% of expanded-credit MBS...Read More
A Non-QM Deal With a WAC of Close to 9% January 26, 2023 Paul Muolo Given the yield on the security, the offering should be well received.Read More
Potential Trouble: Low-Coupon Non-QMs Sitting on Warehouse Lines January 25, 2023 Paul Muolo Others found a way to avoid the day of reckoning, but time may be running out...Read More
Freedom Financial Ready to Market Another HELOC Securitization January 24, 2023 Brandon Ivey Freedom Financial issued a similar HELOC deal in November.Read More
Santander to Issue Non-Agency Credit-Risk Transfer January 23, 2023 Brandon Ivey Santander stopped originating mortgages in the U.S. almost a year ago, then outsourced the function to Rocket...Read More
Non-QM Performance Skids For a Third Straight Month January 18, 2023 Brandon Ivey Total impairments on securitized non-QMs reached 4.2% in November...Read More
An Ugly 4Q22 Decline for EC MBS January 17, 2023 Brandon Ivey JPMorgan Chase was the top prime-jumbo and EC MBS underwriter in 2022...Read More
RMBS Issuance Stumbles to Lowest Output Since 2013, Some Life in Seconds January 13, 2023 John Bancroft The only gain was the niche market in securitized second-lien mortgages.Read More
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