The Financial Stability Oversight Council wants to take a close look at the secondary mortgage market but isn’t letting on about its agenda. Maybe a “housing czar” will come out of this, some wonder.

With overnight funding in the agency repo market hovering around 15 basis points and term repo rates a shade above the one-month LIBOR, yields for agency mREITs could edge upward, KBW analysts predict.

The company believes delivering loans to agency MBS helps it be a “high velocity, capital light and cash generating” operation. This year, the firm has held mortgages on its balance sheet for as few as eight days.

Economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that having both to-be-announced and specified pools markets increase yields for MBS in both places.

The CRT market is showing signs of post-pandemic recovery. But Freddie Mac’s former CEO believes the re-proposed capital rule for the GSEs could make the whole CRT program pointless.

A COVID-19 infection in the Dallas office of document custodian BNY Mellon is causing MBS transactions to backup.

In his semiannual report to Congress on Tuesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell described the MBS market as "vital to the flow of credit in the economy."

Instead of larger, multi-issuer uniform MBS pools, FHFA wants seller/servicers to closely monitor the prepayment speeds of their broker/correspondent channels to ensure closer alignment of Fannie/Freddie pools.

To ensure the uniform MBS is a “continued success,” the FHFA has asked Fannie and Freddie to be watchful of “key patterns and measures.”

Will the FHA hike premiums as a way to allay forbearance risk on Ginnie Mae-backed loans? Probably not, but it’s an option.