Secondary markets

Mortgage subservicing opportunities open up as transfers rise: BSI

Rate volatility stemming from the banking crisis temporarily disrupted trading, but a broad range of deals large and small have gone up for bid since then.

Mission-driven entities will have priority on 50% of loan pools secured by Home Equity Conversion Mortgages.

Truist Financial Corp. plans to stop sales and trading of mortgage-backed securities and government-agency and Small Business Administration bonds by January.

The agency added increased emphasis on loss mitigation and special purpose credit programs following heightened calls for more participation in the latter from a minority trade group.

The inspector general linked the problems to staff turnover and recommended improvements to policies around documentation that the housing agency agreed to make.

Convicted former MBA Chairman Ron McCord and his Oklahoma-based company settled CapLoc's allegations that they put fraudulent loans on a funding line.

In total, around 98,000 loans with a principal balance of $31.8 billion are in the cover pools for the two new insurance-based transactions.

The primary cause is agency put-backs and fixing the problems is difficult in a rising rate environment.

The company shifted $189 billion of agency mortgage-backed securities to held-to-maturity on its balance sheet, shielding its shareholder equity from unrealized losses.

For many, rates could be higher, but borrowers with lower down payments and credit scores could get new government-sponsored enterprise discounts competitive with the FHA's lower premium.

The migration of new financing for large Ginnie Mae issuers, from Credit Suisse to other firms, is a crucially important development for the mortgage market .

The bank's broader challenges, which include a run on deposits and difficulty selling loans without realizing losses, could affect the rating agency's assessment of its servicing.

The agency, which oversees government-related investors that set underwriting parameters in the U.S. mortgage market, estimates the process will begin in 2024.

Excess returns on the bonds, which compares mortgage backed security performance to Treasuries, are -0.94% for March, on track for the worst relative performance since September.

The government-sponsored enterprise took the next step towards allowing lenders to implement its property valuation modernization plans.

The government-backed acquisition heads off regulatory and financial concerns at a Swiss bank that could have affected overseas financial institutions that U.S. lenders count on.

Imbalances linked to affordability and interest rate volatility are challenging the mortgage market. Here's how they may be resolved.

Institutions can borrow against par-valued securities that they would otherwise have to sell at a loss when there's a run on deposits, and it could have effectiveness beyond its actual usage.

The new fees based on the DTI, which lenders have said is too likely to vary throughout the origination process for a single loan, will now go into effect in August.