UWM is offering its first non-QM product in years; the impairment rate on securitized non-QMs declined somewhat in October.

UWM has its own non-agency MBS shelf, allowing the lender/servicer to directly issue deals. However, the company continues to contribute mortgages to non-agency MBS issued by others.

Fannie’s deemed-issuance ratio for 2022 dropped as the government-sponsored enterprise accounted for a lower share of deliveries to UMBS; MISMO is working to standardize the bid-wanted in competition dataset format.

Redwood Trust, a correspondent aggregator of non-agency jumbos, is among those that have embraced the new standards.

While IOs are non-QMs, UWM isn’t necessarily going down the credit scale...

Some non-agency lenders are sticking with the older QM standards due to concerns about liability tied to income and employment verification requirements under the newer, more lenient QM standards.

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Goldman Sachs, New Residential Investment and Redwood Trust offered non-agency MBS on Nov. 29.

Black Knight increased its earnings in the third quarter of 2021 compared with the prior quarter while Blend Labs took a loss after earning a small profit in the second quarter.

Lenders and servicers don’t see much use in blockchain technology for now; Mat Ishbia abruptly terminated a stock offering involving United Wholesale Mortgage; federal banking regulators set computer-security disclosure requirements; nCino to acquire SimpleNexus.