Securitization

Commercial mortgage underwriting standards have already loosened dramatically this year, but it seems that some borrowers are still trying to get away with a little more.

Fannie Mae has transferred the credit risk on a $12 billion pool of mortgages to reinsurers.

The congressman thinks there could be an opportunity to push covered bond legislation through now that a standoff over the debt ceiling has been resolved.

Joshua Banschick, a mortgage bond trader at JPMorgan Chase & Co., has returned to work nearly a year after the bank placed him on leave amid government probes into that market.

Four Federal Home Loan Banks have recruited 74 members to participate in their new Mortgage Partnership Finance jumbo loan program.

Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corp. posted a third-quarter loss due mainly to a hit on unrealized derivatives income.

Invitation Homes chose to exercise an option to extend the term of a loan backing the first single-family rental securitization.

Freddie Mac has launched an auction of $1.2 billion of nonperforming loans, while Fannie Mae has announced the two winners of its recent auction of $1.24 billion of nonperforming loans.

Redwood Trust's fourth residential mortgage securitization of the year is backed entirely by 15-year, fixed-rate loans.

Shares of real estate investment trusts fell the most since August after an upbeat reading on U.S. jobs increased the odds the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates this year.

Jumbo loan securitizer Redwood Trust Inc. posted a sharp decline in profits in the third quarter driven by negative noninterest income.

Former Rabobank trader Anthony Allen, found guilty for rigging a key financial benchmark, struck jurors in Manhattan as evasive, deceptive and "shaky," as one of them put it after delivering the verdict.

Ocwen Financial is back with another round of term notes issued from its Ocwen Master Advance Receivables Trust.

Citigroup plans to issue another $421 million of reperforming residential mortgage bonds from its Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, according to DBRS.

Nationstar will provide servicing-released option for fledging Chicago's MPF Government MPF program.

New rules proposed by international banking regulators would severely reduce, and possibly eliminate, banks' profitability in trading bonds that finance everything from home loans and apartment mortgages to auto loans and student debt, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Bank of America has paid more than $2.1 billion in consumer relief in the second quarter, making strides in paying the mortgage crisis-related penalties imposed by the Justice Department, an independent monitor announced Tuesday.

Five Oak Investment Corp, a real estate investment trust that manages a portfolio of agency and nonagency RMBS, is back with a second securitization this year, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corp. has purchased its first mortgage servicing rights portfolio, with an aggregate unpaid principal balance of roughly $1.4 billion.

Bank of America has agreed to pay $335 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it misled shareholders about risky mortgages and its dependence on the electronic mortgage registry known as MERS.