Lawmakers Criticize QRM Downpayment Size; Regulators Undecided on Reissuing a New Proposal
December 9, 2011
Federal financial regulators are still sifting through stacks of criticism about their controversial risk-retention proposal for the MBS and ABS market and have not yet decided whether to start over again with a new proposed rule, as most industry groups have urged them to do. The agencies are also getting a lot of push from Capitol Hill to re-think the original proposal, which was released in late March. I am very concerned that if the qualified residential mortgage definition being worked out by regulators isnt broad enough, it could hurt the housing market, especially...