After a slight blip higher in early-stage delinquencies in November, late-payment rates fell in December for all three agencies. (Includes data chart.)
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae reported improvement in loan-performance rates in November. But early-payment defaults were up. (Includes data chart.)
Issuance of rated non-agency MBS and ABS rose significantly during the third quarter, although both markets continued to lag behind 2019 on year-to-date volume. (Includes two data charts.)
Fed by massive originations of agency-eligible mortgages, the securitization rate rose 5.1 percentage points to 80.4% in the third quarter of 2020. That's the highest it's been since 2013. (Includes data chart.)
The two GSEs agree that a proposed capital rule would diminish the benefit of credit-risk transfers, but Freddie plans to stay in the market under the current regime. (Includes data chart.)
Fannie and Freddie both reported declines in the most severe category of delinquency, but Ginnie's rate was slightly higher in October. (Includes data chart.)
Fannie and Freddie reported strong gains in net income during the third quarter, and the ongoing mortgage-market boom pumped up their retained mortgage holdings. (Includes data chart.)
Production levels surged for agency 1-4-family MBS, non-mortgage ABS and commercial MBS from the second to the third quarter. Nonbanks continued to dominate the agency market. Includes three data charts.)
Fannie Mae’s credit-risk transfer loan-level data show 21.0% of borrowers that were in forbearance in June exited when their relief plans expired in July. That works out to 1.7% of the government-sponsored enterprise’s outstandings.
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