RMBS

Total delinquencies in the Standard & Poor's Portuguese RMBS index decreased slightly in the second quarter of 2013, for the first time in 2 years.

Redwood Trust prepared to issue its 11th deal of the year that has been assigned preliminary ratings by both Kroll Bond Ratings Agency.

Rising interest rates slowed refinancing demand and whet homebuyers' appetites for adjustable-rate mortgages in July, according to Ellie Mae's monthly survey of mortgage loan applications.

Fannie Mae was able to extract an $11.6 billion mortgage-repurchase settlement from Bank of America this year — its largest to date — because the bank needed Fannie's approval to sell billions of dollars in servicing rights.

Regulators have officially gone back to the drawing board in trying to implement Dodd-Frank Act restrictions on securitized mortgages.

The $885 million MBS settlement UBS reached with the government-sponsored enterprises may motivate more banks to fight lawsuits in court rather than pay excessive costs like this, according to Fitch Ratings.

As refinancing volumes plummet, lenders are trying to extend the home financing boom by pitching adjustable-rate mortgages to borrowers, harkening back to the pre-crisis boom years.

Jumbo securitization is just one of many key financing strategies the hybrid real estate investment trust Two Harbors Investment Corp. is turning to as the government reduces its MBS footprint.

Servicing of non-agency residental mortgage backed securities continued to shift from banks in to the hands of non-banks in the second quarter of 2013 and this trend will continue.