Annaly started marketing an expanded-credit MBS last month just as President Trump announced new tariffs. The deal went through at a spread that likely wouldn’t have been achievable as recently as three years ago.

Rithm is both a buyer and seller of non-agency mortgages. Wider spreads in recent months have helped generate strong returns from loan acquisitions. Meanwhile, RTL production through its Genesis unit slowed during the first quarter.

Impairment rate on non-QMs declines; new issuers of home equity loan securitizations; bank offers new jumbo ARMs via wholesale channel; proprietary reverse-mortgage product from Liberty Reverse Mortgage.