Bayview Asset Management and Verus Mortgage Capital separately started marketing non-agency MBS in the days after Hurricane Ian made landfall. Rating services that assessed the deals differed in their focus on potential damage from the hurricane.
An affiliate of Bayview Asset Management is set to issue its first jumbo MBS since December. Loans in the deal have seasoned for an average of 4.5 months and were sourced from a number of lenders.
A trial that started in September after years of delays ended with a settlement. Bank of America agreed to pay $1.84 billion to settle claims tied to non-agency MBS issued by Countrywide Financial prior to the 2008 financial crisis.
Ginnie Mae believes the year-plus implementation period should give potentially affected issuers enough time to plan and execute strategies for coming into compliance its new risk-based capital requirements.
Non-QM impairments decline after two-month increase; Balbec unit offers non-QM MBS with loans from Sprout; new CIO at Redwood; Velocity quickly packages business-purpose loans.
Delinquencies on expanded-credit MBS are increasing but investors in the deals appear to be protected at the moment. A review of the sector by Fitch prompted many upgrades and no downgrades.
Spreads had steadily widened in the expanded-credit sector between February and July. But as spreads declined in August, demand for expanded-credit MBS appears to have improved.
MISMO is getting close to releasing revised standards for data collection in the non-agency MBS market. The effort could prompt efficiencies for lenders, due diligence firms and rating services.
Improvements to practices in the non-agency MBS market will help to protect investors from lenders that don’t make it through the current market contraction, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.
It will be the 11th issuance of its type by loanDepot.
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