Expanded-credit MBS issuance looks likely to increase again in 2020, but not at the exponential growth rate seen since the sector emerged in 2015. A major variable is how the CFPB will address the QM patch.
Provident Funding Associates is set to issue a non-agency MBS with mortgages eligible for sale to the GSEs. The types of loans in the deal differ from previous non-agency MBS packed with Fannie/Freddie-eligible mortgages.
A busy market: An affiliate of Neuberger Berman is prepping a $411.1 million expanded-credit MBS; Credit Suisse increased the number of lenders it's sourcing non-QMs from; and an affiliate of PIMCO issued another deal with seasoned non-QMs that were subject to clean-up calls.
The parent company of United Wholesale Mortgage was the top originator of mortgages in prime non-agency MBS issued in the third quarter. Underwriting standards haven’t changed much in the past year. (Includes two data charts.)
No publicly registered deal has been issued since the SEC tightened disclosure requirements in 2014. However, revisions contemplated by the agency could change all that.
Redwood’s mortgage banking income decreased in the third quarter as falling interest rates lessened demand for MBS. Execution rebounded in October after interest rates increased.