There’s more to federal regulators’ risk-retention proposed rule and qualified residential mortgage requirements than the 30 percent downpayment option that the industry has strongly pushed back against. Lenders are also concerned about proposed disclosure requirements, horizontal risk retention and sunset provisions for risk-retention requirements. In August, six federal regulators issued a revised proposed rule for risk-retention requirements mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act. Non-agency securities backed by mortgages that don’t meet QRM requirements will be subject to required risk retention of at least 5 percent by the issuer or contributing lenders. If regulators conform the definition for QRMs with the standards for qualified mortgages established by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, more than 95 percent of originations will meet...