Cart

Inside MBS & ABS

April 24, 2009

View Archived Issues

Impact of Government Programs May be Muted, MBS Market Needs to Cultivate More Investors

The federal government’s massive effort to restore liquidity to financial markets may help revive the sector even if the actual volume of deals never amounts to much, but experts say the MBS market will still have to find new investors to absorb the huge supply of agency... Read More

Rating Services See Further Deterioration in Housing Market Before Recovery Takes Hold

The long-suffering U.S. housing market still has further corrections to make before it truly stabilizes and provides a foundation for mortgage securities activity, according to rating service analysts speaking at this week’s secondary market conference sponsored by the Mortgage... Read More

Predatory Lending Markup Expected Tuesday, But Many Securitization Concerns Remain

The House Financial Services Committee is planning to move ahead as early as next Tuesday to mark up anti-predatory lending legislation, members revealed this week. And while a number of industry concerns remain over the securitization implications of the bill, lawmakers... Read More

Non-Agency MBS Force FHLBanks to Write Down $2 Billion as Earnings Drop 50 Percent

The Federal Home Loan Banks saw their collective earnings cut in half in 2008, in large part because deteriorating non-agency MBS holdings forced a huge writeoff for the year. The 12 FHLBanks recorded a collective loss of $715 million for the fourth quarter, versus combined net income of... Read More

GSEs Provide More Details on Their Streamlined Refi Programs

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac officials say they designed their new streamlined refinance programs to make it as easy as possible for borrowers and servicers to quickly process a potentially huge wave of refi activity by homeowners who have seen the equity in their... Read More

Latest Imf News

More Imf News

Featured Data

More Featured Data

Featured Reports

More Latest Reports

Featured Poll

As homeowner equity continues to build, more and more lenders are launching home equity lending products. Are you thinking of joining this market?

View Results