Risk management

While a majority of current forborne borrowers sought relief for reasons related to COVID-19, servicers are seeing a growing share of cases involving natural disasters or personal financial issues, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

For large banks, the agencies wanted to go above the global standards for residential mortgages, as well as some business loans, to avoid giving those lenders a competitive advantage over smaller peers, according to another person familiar with the proposal.

Experts and industry leaders said banks are pumping investment into technology that can connect information silos.

Subordinated debt issuances and asset-backed securities have helped institutions of all asset sizes weather recent market uncertainties and fuel campaigns for growth, according to executives and investment experts.

Institutions can borrow against par-valued securities that they would otherwise have to sell at a loss when there's a run on deposits, and it could have effectiveness beyond its actual usage.

Mortgage-backed securities aren't generally considered risky assets, but how SVB managed them contributed to its woes.

The government-sponsored enterprises will likely have their mainstay bonds exempted from the potential securitization-related rule, but their credit-risk transfers could be subject to it, some experts say.

A larger share of cash-out loans and slowing home-price growth is leading to expectations of more serious delinquencies down the road, according to Milliman.

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell brushed off concerns that rapidly tightening monetary policy could disrupt the financial system. Some economists and policy experts beg to differ, raising concerns about loan defaults or even the collapse of a key institution or counterparty.

The San Francisco bank is following the lead of other U.S. megabanks by providing shorter-term targets ahead of 2050 climate pledges.

The government-sponsored enterprise has already done twice as many of these deals as it did during all of 2021.

CEO Jamie Dimon cited elevated risks related to inflation and the war in Ukraine as the nation’s largest bank added $902 million in loan-loss reserves. “Does this represent conservatism in an uncertain macro environment or something more onerous?” one analyst asked.

The new futures contracts can be used to mitigate risk on both the origination pipeline and the mortgage servicing portfolio.

Home prices have increased at their fastest rate since the mid-2000s housing boom and driven skyrocketing inflation. Fed Gov. Christopher Waller says lenders are better prepared for a shock than in 2007 but still need to be monitored — especially nonbank lenders.

Only 12% of large and regional banks in the U.S. and Canada are running the scenario analyses that regulators are poised to recommend, according to a new survey. Observers say progress has been faster on the other side of the Atlantic, as European banks and their regulators have moved more quickly to develop a uniform system for quantifying risks.

The largest bank based in oil-rich Texas is building a framework for gauging the threat that climate change poses to its business and plans to disclose more information on the subject this summer. Meanwhile, its energy loan portfolio shrank 24% year over year.

The reception in the market to structured single-family CRTs' return at the government-sponsored enterprise was strong enough for it to plan to follow up this transaction with another one next month.

The company will return to selling pieces of its credit exposure to private investors during the last three months of the year, but is still evaluating its strategy for 2022.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is looking to revise the framework intended for when Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac exit conservatorship in order to encourage the transfer of credit risk to private investors.

President Biden plans to direct his administration to develop a strategy on climate-related risks for public and private financial assets, according to a draft document seen by Bloomberg News.