Securitization

Questions remain around switching benchmarks that could result in unexpected refinancings

The agency eased rules regarding delinquency thresholds and reporting regulations through the end of June 2023.

The credit card issuer Synchrony Financial recently used FICO’s top competitor in a $1 billion deal. The choice is significant for VantageScore, but FICO remains the dominant credit score in the securitization market, according to analysts.

The Treasuries market is girding for potential disruptions from the next and trickiest stage of policymakers’ tightening campaign: the shrinking of an $8.5 trillion bond portfolio.

Purchasing mortgage-backed securities—and that strategy is not out of the question as the central bank works to promote equilibrium in the housing markets over time.

Home price values of the underlying pool are more than 10% above a long-term sustainable level. The sustainable level from a national point of view is 9.2%.

Real-estate owned assets sold in 2021 achieved 109% of the most recent appraised value, on average, compared with the 97% that the sales achieved, in 2020.

Together, the deals OBX programs will issue about $850.5 million in prime jumbo and non-prime RMBS paper, and are expected to close on May 10.

Almost the entire deal will issue notes through a senior-subordinate capital structure repaying principal sequentially, instead of on a modified sequence.

With ADFITECH as a held company now, Mortgage Connect says it is well equipped to be a linear provider of credit, compliance and servicing review services.