Securitization

Treasury dealers and investors are busy trying to predict exactly when the Federal Reserve might pull the trigger on cutting the size of its balance sheet and how big that drawdown could be when it does.

In addition to being almost entirely composed of investment-purpose mortgages, about 100% of the pool’s 2,175 mortgages are agency eligible.

The SEC claims Morningstar put investors at a risk when rating $30 billion in CMBS deals from 2015-2016. Morningstar defends its integrity and independence.

The selloff worsened after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting showed officials considering earlier and faster interest-rate increases than expected.

Treasury yields rose a second day amid increasing conviction that the Federal Reserve will raise rates at least three times beginning in May.

Even among the non-QM loans in the reference pool, pegged to the SOFR, most of their characteristics fall in line with what is considered prime.

Debt issued by states to finance low-interest loans for first-time home-buyers or build affordable housing carry higher yields and are less volatile, so they typically perform better than other muni sectors when rates rise, said Peter DeGroot, head of municipal research and strategy at the biggest U.S. bank.

ABS experts discussed new avenues for growth, and hindrances to innovation at the IMN ABS East conference in Miami.

Key retail vacancies, a drop in office occupancies, plus a combination of lower oil prices, a housing market oversupply — worsened by the coronavirus pandemic — caused loan-level performance issues.

The Morgan Mortgage Trust platform has had a SOFR tranche on every previous 2021 deal, generally pricing with a spread of about 95 basis points over SOFR.

Since the pandemic began, there have been fewer active managers buying the less liquid types of securitized debt, creating big opportunities for bargain hunting in securities like mortgage bonds and collateralized loan obligations, hedge fund Ellington Management Group says in a new report.

Under Home Partners Holdings’ right to purchase (RTP) program, RTP prices exceed purchase valuations by about $33.2 million, and on 817 properties.

The AOMT 2021-8 waterfall will distribute principal to A-1 through A-3 certificates at all times, and notes are taking a Fitch haircut amid inflated home values.

Founded in the wake of the global financial crisis, KBRA has issued more than 51,000 ratings representing almost $3 trillion in rated issuance since 2010.

Credit enhancement includes subordination, shored up by excess spread generated from excess spread between the cash flow on the collateral and the certificates.

Velocity Commercial Capital, 2021-4 uses subordination and excess spread that will cover both current and cumulative realized losses.

New securitizations of mortgages on energy-efficient rental housing totalled $12.7 billion during the first 11 months of this year, suggesting 2021’s total will come close to matching 2020’s $13 billion.

The pool includes a high concentration of loans originated through alternative underwriting, and on investment properties. Just 10.3% of the pool received COVID forbearance.

All of the loans are non-prime loans, and this is the first transaction that BREDS will sponsor using the BINOM shelf.

The entire collateral pool is made up of conforming, high-balance mortgage loans underwritten using an automated system designated by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.