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.
Agency single-family MBS production continued to erode in the third quarter despite a modest pickup in purchase loans. Meanwhile, issuance fell sharply in the commercial MBS and ABS markets. (Includes three data charts.)
Investors tend to buy mortgage REIT stocks for the dividends they pay. But the sector, overall, has suffered this year, thanks in part to the widening spread between Treasuries and MBS.
Delinquencies on auto ABS are now above pre-pandemic levels, while losses are approaching the same threshold. Still, rating services aren’t too concerned, noting used vehicle prices and unemployment levels.
Private equity investors are turning to collateralized fund obligations, which include some features from the collateralized loan obligation sector. KBRA rated its first CFO last week.
Initial estimates on Hurricane Ian-related losses; Biden administration limits student loan forgiveness on loans in ABS; Credit Suisse’s financial difficulties trickle down to an ABS.
The government guarantor is considering making its pandemic-era pass-through assistance program credit facility for nonbanks permanent. And it comes at a pressing time.
Angel Oak, a key player in the non-QM MBS market, is facing financial turbulence. The CEO of its REIT departed suddenly this week and a line of credit it has with Barclays is about to expire.
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