Starting March 1, 2020, issuers will be required to have and maintain, at all times, a weighted average servicing spread of at least 25 basis points for their forward, fixed-rate single-family Ginnie portfolio.

The planned Bunker Hill Loan Depository Trust 2019-1 from Oaktree Funding will be stocked with non-QMs along with business-purpose mortgages.

There was some speculation before the vote that SIFMA might delay the guidelines or otherwise hinder UMBS issuance, but the vote on Wednesday was passed with a “significant majority,” according to SIFMA.

Lenders delivered $93.54 billion of conventional, FHA and VA mortgages with loan amounts exceeding $453,100 into agency mortgage-backed securities last year, a 23.9% decline from 2017.

Issuers of prime jumbo mortgage-backed securities aren’t doing a good enough job of providing details of potential rep-and-warrant breaches …

The Federal Housing Finance Agency last week issued a final rule aimed at improving liquidity of the to-be-announced MBS as well as the new uniform MBS, which makes its debut in early June ...

The Structured Finance Industry Group’s years-long effort to reform practices in the non-agency mortgage-backed security market is nearly complete ...

Freddie Mac on Monday initiated three investments in affordable housing managed by National Equity Fund ...

The bravura performance came during a month when GSE and Ginnie Mae MBS issuance totaled just $80.7 billion…

More servicing-related auctions are in the pipeline, including a $2.97 billion Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac portfolio from Phoenix Capital...