It’s been one year since the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act has been enacted, and industry representatives remain anxious about the negative effects they expect the legislation will have on the mortgage market and the cost and availability of mortgage credit. Coming up with any new mortgage products at all will be one of the numerous challenges posed by Dodd-Frank, thanks in particular to the burdensome, 5 percent risk-retention requirement, according to Larry Platt, a partner with law firm K&L Gates in Washington, DC. “Under the Dodd-Frank risk-retention requirement, there’s ...