The agency single-family MBS market did what it was expected to do in May, generating a modest gain in production spurred on by vigor in the purchase-mortgage sector. [Includes two data charts.]
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A key Treasury Department official last month said the Federal Housing Finance Agency will remain committed to the single-security initiative no matter who the Trump administration names to take over the regulator of the two government-sponsored enterprises.
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Ginnie Mae has restricted three issuers from putting VA mortgages in standard multi-issuer MBS pools as it continues to police the ranks for alleged churning activities.
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Industry participants are preparing for a transition away from the London Inter-bank Offered Rate in MBS and ABS but more needs to be done, according to an analysis by Fitch Ratings.
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Some of the nation’s largest MBS-investing real estate investment trusts are seeing their share values wither a bit as the summer approaches, but for the most part their fortunes look fairly intact.
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An investigation was launched last week into whether banks have been manipulating the prices in the government-sponsored enterprises’ unsecured debt.
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Kroll Bond Rating Agency and Morningstar Credit Ratings recently expanded the types of products they will assess with new criteria for Property Assessed Clean Energy ABS and single-asset/single-borrower commercial MBS, respectively.
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