E. Thomas Booker, III of Candor Technology explains why zero repurchase risk is only the result of the new normal.
Read More »A Snapshot of Single-Borrower SFR Securitizations
Kroll Bond Rating Agency has released Single-Borrower SFR: Performance Snapshot, examining the performance of 25 outstanding single-borrower, single-family rental (SFR) securitizations, as of March 2018. The March Performance Snapshot reveals an average contractual rent rate increase of 7.2 percent since ...
Read More »KBRA: Don’t Remove Government Backing from Mortgages
Privatizing the GSEs could potentially have an adverse effect on the mortgage market in the United States, according to Kroll Bond Ratings Agency.
Read More »KBRA Assigns Preliminary Ratings to STACR Notes
Kroll Bond Rating Agency recently reported that they assigned preliminary ratings to nine classes of notes from Freddie Mac’s STACR.
Read More »What Are the Factors of a ‘Stable’ Bank Rating Outlook?
What deciding factors attributed to banks that received a "stable" rating in a mid-year outlook released this week?
Read More »Ratings Agency Questions Fed’s ‘Harsh’ Stress Test Verbiage
Kroll Bond Ratings Agency believes that investors should take note of the language the Fed used in the published results of its recent stress tests for the largest bank holding companies.
Read More »Banking Industry Begins Preparation for Higher Credit Costs
The U.S. banking industry's period of recovery and release have come to a close and significantly higher credit costs lie ahead which will indeed affect these institutions' first quarter earnings.
Read More »Credit Default Swap Market Has Fallen Dramatically Since the Crisis
What issues are both borrowers and investors currently facing in the credit default swap market? What can Congress do to revive the market?
Read More »SFR Securitizations Appreciating in Value
The most seasoned transactions experienced the most appreciation; the transaction with the highest level of appreciation was the very first one that was issued, IH 2013-SFR1.
Read More »Another Asset Price Bubble? Kroll Says ‘Yes’
Did you get many warning signs? Not really. So if the data coming in today doesn’t fit within the pessimistic paradigm created by some of the world’s leading economists, just call it a case of déjà vu, analysts with Kroll Bond Rating Agency said Wednesday.
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