The new MBS from Redwood will include a mix of safe-harbor qualified mortgages, rebuttable presumption QMs, non-QMs and some loans not subject to QM standards.
A growing number of mortgage lenders and aggregators are actively considering entry into the private label securitization market, says Clayton President Jeff Tennyson…
With speculation mounting that CFPB Director Richard Cordray could be out the door as early as the Labor Day weekend, the CFPB late last week announced it is amending the 2015 updates to the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act rule. The bureau has temporarily changed reporting requirements for banks and credit unions that issue home-equity lines of credit, and clarified the information that financial institutions are required to collect and report about their mortgage lending. Under the rules that are scheduled to take effect January 2018, financial institutions would have been required under HMDA to report HELOCs if they made 100 such loans in each of the last two years. The final rule issued this past Thursday increases that threshold to ...
Commercial banks and savings institutions have been steadily adding to their residential MBS portfolios, but they show significantly less interest in the non-mortgage ABS market. Total bank investment in non-mortgage ABS sank again in the second quarter, dropping by $5.05 billion from the end of March to $118.38 billion. Compared to a year ago, bank ABS holdings were down 9.6 percent and they’ve been in steady decline since the end of 2013. It’s...[Includes two data tables]
Even though indications of stress in the U.S. auto market are proliferating, risks in the auto loan ABS sector are still under control and investors are protected by healthy levels of credit enhancement, according to industry analysts. “Despite late-cycle indicators continuing to garner headlines – softer used-car pricing, rising inventories, weakening headline seasonally adjusted annual sales, and rising loan losses – we remain comfortable with auto loan ABS fundamentals,” according to a new report from Kroll Bond Rating Agency. KBRA did concede...