Cheered on and prodded by the Bush administration, the American Securitization Forum this week released a highly anticipated framework that’s designed to give mortgage servicers a green light to modify vast numbers of adjustable-rate... [Includes one graph]
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Although the framework for streamlined loss mitigation announced this week by the American Securitization Forum won huge endorsements from the Bush administration and a broad coalition of servicers and housing counselors, some observers are skeptical. “Servicers are...
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Better transparency and predictability of the underlying mortgage asset may be necessary before investor confidence in the U.S. MBS market is restored, according to analysts at a housing forum hosted by the Office of Thrift Supervision. Analysts spread the blame...
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Savings institutions held $253.14 billion of mortgage securities in their investment portfolios as of the end of September, a modest increase from the previous period, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside MBS & ABS. Although... [Includes two charts]
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The mortgage and securitization industries continued to warn lawmakers this week of the dangers of harming the secondary mortgage market via “cramdown” provisions in various federal bankruptcy bills that are pending in both chambers of Congress. Leading up to...
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New issuance in the non-agency MBS market continued to sink to new lows in November, with a mere $18.49 billion in new volume coming to market. That was down 22 percent from the previous month and represented the lowest... [Includes one chart]
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