Acra Lending updates guidelines; DBRS ready to rate securitizations of residential transition loans; Moody’s reaffirms ratings for Redwood Trust; MISMO updates implementation guide for home equity eNotes.

Carrington introduces 40-year loan program; Moody’s upgrades NewRez’s expanded-credit business; DBRS Morningstar updates home equity asset class ratings methodology.

New non-QM MBS; Figure gains new private label partners; CFPB weighs in on TILA case; Guaranteed Rate takes full ownership of relocation mortgage specialist; AG Mortgage Investment Trust bids on Western Asset Mortgage Capital; A&D improves second-loan pricing.

Change Mortgage’s unique approach to underwriting for underserved communities has earned the CDFI its first AAA-rated security.

Renewed calls for standardization come with potential challenges unique to the non-QM sector.

Roc360 acquires BPL assets from Civic Financial Services; new non-agency MBS; non-agency MBS performing well; UWM launches new jumbo products; fractional home-equity provider.

Three new MBS hit the market; non-QM impairments declined in March; Impac Mortgage delisted from NYSE.

CPFB revises methodology for APOR; Fitch downgrades PacWest’s CRT; LendingOne taps ex-Sprout vice president for TPO business; DBRS adds new due diligence provider to “acceptable” list.

A new HELOC securitization from Figure Lending received preliminary AAA ratings, a first for the issuer.

MISMO is working to update data fields established by the American Securitization Forum in 2009 for use in the non-agency MBS market.