With primary-market rates topping 7% in August, the outlook for agency single-family MBS production is not favorable. A clutch of nonbanks continues to dominant issuance. (Includes two data charts.)
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The Structured Finance Association continues to push forward on revising the disclosures used with non-agency MBS. The revisions could lead to major changes in industry practices.
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Some credit unions are toying with the idea of selectively trimming their holdings of seasoned residential mortgages. A trend or just a blip in activity?
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The final rule for private fund advisers addressed many concerns of CLO market watchers around compliance burdens. Separately, a federal appeals court held that syndicated term loans aren’t securities.
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Despite 15 months of balance sheet reduction, at the current pace, it will still take the Federal Reserve nearly four and a half years to bring its holdings of MBS and Treasuries down to pre-pandemic levels.
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Most residential MBS and commercial MBS have limited exposure to the hurricane; the FDIC is working to sell Signature Bank’s $33 billion portfolio of commercial mortgages; DBRS ready to rate residential transition loan MBS; MISMO seeking comments on ESG materials.
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The creation of a U.S. sovereign wealth fund could grease the skids for an end to the conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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