MSCI Aligning prepayment speeds of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securities presents a major challenge to the success of uniform mortgage-backed securities (UMBS), which the two government-sponsored enterprises will launch on June 3. Read More
Urban Institute Last year, we wrote about the need to address the expiration of the government-sponsored enterprise patch, or “GSE patch,” which currently allows higher debt-to-income (DTI) ratio mortgages to qualify for the protections provided under the qualified mortgage (QM) rule. Read More
Debtwire RS&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices futures have been a lonely corner of activity for the CME Group over the past decade, perhaps as home values have been reliable gainers amid falling unemployment, growth in the number of households, and a dearth of available homes. Now, the abrupt shift in the US economic outlook might draw attention to the derivatives, according to one market maker. Read More
By Nancy Wallace, Karen Pence, Richard Stanton, Steven M. Laufer, You Suk Kim Nonbanks originated about half of all mortgages in 2016, and 75 percent of the mortgages insured by the FHA and the VA. Both shares are much higher than those observed at any point in the 2000s.
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