The London Inter-Bank Offered Rate, is nearing its end, and set to expire sometime after 2021, with the Secured Overnight Financing Rate, or SOFR taking its place.
Read More »GSEs Release Secondary Market Updates
Here's the latest on Fannie Mae's reperforming loan sales and Ginnie Mae's mortgage-backed securities.
Read More »How Fannie Mae’s Connecticut Avenue Offerings Cut Credit Risk
In addition to sharing credit risk on Fannie Mae's single-family conventional guaranty book of business, the latest CAS transaction is one of several ways the GSEs are promoting liquidity.
Read More »Fed Mortgage-Backed Securities Update: To Sell or Not?
Between December 19 and December 24, the Federal Reserve bought $825 million of agency mortgage-backed securities. Here's what they sold and what they kept.
Read More »SEC Seeks Commentary on Disclosure Rules and RMBS
With the future privatization of Frannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the RMBS market is bound to shift, and in repsonse, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission wants to know if disclosure rules are discouraging RMBS issuance.
Read More »The GSEs’ Uniform Mortgage-Backed Securities: Pros and Cons
As Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac prepare to launch the combined bond, questions arise on whether the change will negatively or positively impact the mortgage market and affordability.
Read More »Update on Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities
While prepayments increased, how has the credit rating of residential mortgage-backed securities been affected?
Read More »GSE Q1 Update: From Foreclosures to Mortgage-Backed Securities
Here's how Fannie and Freddie performed in the first months of 2019, according to the GSEs’ financial results announced Wednesday.
Read More »Senate Banking Committee Reexamines Regulatory Expectations
During a Tuesday hearing, the Senate Banking Committee talked to experts on how to improve the accountability and oversight of bank supervisory agencies, from applications to mortgage-related securities.
Read More »RMBS in 2019
A report looked at the opportunities and headwinds in the residential mortgage-backed securities market and here’s what it projected for these securities in 2019.
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