Taking the Pulse: Challenges Facing Today’s Changing U.S. Residential Mortgage Market

Overview

Title: Taking the Pulse: Challenges Facing Today’s Changing U.S. Residential Mortgage Market

Duration: 45 minutes

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Summary

More than a decade after the crisis and we now are seeing signs that the U.S. mortgage landscape is changing. Government-sponsored entities (GSEs) such as, Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Agency) primarily supported the post-crisis by the issuing mortgage bonds that essentially assume most of the default risk. Non-agency (aka “private-label”) mortgage bonds have no such credit protection leading to virtually nonexistent issuance.
Change is on the horizon. “[Financial firms]… over the past year have restarted or expanded the business of spinning fresh pools of mortgages into securities…. In the first half of this year, 2.1% of mortgages went into private bonds.” In addition talks are underway to,“ reduce the government’s role in housing finance1 [as well as] a push to “…[return] mortgage finance firms (GSEs) to private-shareholder ownership.2” These nascent developments could impact private-label paper issuance.

Footnotes:

  1. Ben Eisen and Telis Demos, “Banks Warm to Mortgage Bonds That Burned Them in 2008,” The Wall Street Journal, September 16, 2019.
  2. Andrew Ackerman, “Fannie and Freddie Plan Is Likely Released Next Month,” The Wall Street Journal, April 21, 2019.

Speakers

Meredith Beddow
Credit Risk Solutions
S&P Global Market Intelligence


  

Tom Schopflocher
Senior Director Structured Finance, Global Research
S&P Global Ratings

Cristiano Zazzara Ph.D.
Managing Director, Head of Risk Services EMEA
S&P Global Market Intelligence

Dr. Cristiano Zazzara is Managing Director and Head of Risk Services Relationship Management, focusing on key market stakeholders, including C-level Executives and Regulators. He is an expert in financial risk management with over 20 years’ experience at banks, government agencies, service providers, Universities and think tanks.

Cristiano joined S&P Global Market Intelligence from MSCI Risk Metrics where he was the Head of Market, Credit, Counterparty Risk and OTC Clearing Business for the EMEA Banking sector and Global Head of Credit Advisory Business for Buy-side and Sell-Side Institutions. Previously, he was Managing Director in the Research & Strategy Unit of Unicredit Group, Managing Director and Head of the Internal Rating Unit at Capitalia Banking Group, and General Manager of the Italian Association of Banking and Finance (ASSONEBB). Dr. Zazzara also served as a financial economist at the Fondo Interbancario di Tutela dei Depositi, where he was the Head of the Research Department.

Dr. Zazzara received a BSc in Economics & Business and a MSc in Banking from the University La Sapienza of Rome, and a PhD in Management (Finance) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).

Cristiano Zazzara Ph.D.
Managing Director, Head of Risk Services EMEA
S&P Global Market Intelligence

Dr. Cristiano Zazzara is Managing Director and Head of Risk Services Relationship Management, focusing on key market stakeholders, including C-level Executives and Regulators. He is an expert in financial risk management with over 20 years’ experience at banks, government agencies, service providers, Universities and think tanks.

Cristiano joined S&P Global Market Intelligence from MSCI Risk Metrics where he was the Head of Market, Credit, Counterparty Risk and OTC Clearing Business for the EMEA Banking sector and Global Head of Credit Advisory Business for Buy-side and Sell-Side Institutions. Previously, he was Managing Director in the Research & Strategy Unit of Unicredit Group, Managing Director and Head of the Internal Rating Unit at Capitalia Banking Group, and General Manager of the Italian Association of Banking and Finance (ASSONEBB). Dr. Zazzara also served as a financial economist at the Fondo Interbancario di Tutela dei Depositi, where he was the Head of the Research Department.

Dr. Zazzara received a BSc in Economics & Business and a MSc in Banking from the University La Sapienza of Rome, and a PhD in Management (Finance) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).

Cristiano Zazzara Ph.D.
Managing Director, Head of Risk Services EMEA
S&P Global Market Intelligence

Dr. Cristiano Zazzara is Managing Director and Head of Risk Services Relationship Management, focusing on key market stakeholders, including C-level Executives and Regulators. He is an expert in financial risk management with over 20 years’ experience at banks, government agencies, service providers, Universities and think tanks.

Cristiano joined S&P Global Market Intelligence from MSCI Risk Metrics where he was the Head of Market, Credit, Counterparty Risk and OTC Clearing Business for the EMEA Banking sector and Global Head of Credit Advisory Business for Buy-side and Sell-Side Institutions. Previously, he was Managing Director in the Research & Strategy Unit of Unicredit Group, Managing Director and Head of the Internal Rating Unit at Capitalia Banking Group, and General Manager of the Italian Association of Banking and Finance (ASSONEBB). Dr. Zazzara also served as a financial economist at the Fondo Interbancario di Tutela dei Depositi, where he was the Head of the Research Department.

Dr. Zazzara received a BSc in Economics & Business and a MSc in Banking from the University La Sapienza of Rome, and a PhD in Management (Finance) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).

 
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