AFM Conversations: Complying with Ginnie’s Stress Testing Program

Just before the Thanksgiving break, the MBA’s annual Accounting and Financial Management conference took place in Orlando, fostering discussions about industry trends and the best strategies to optimize growth and manage risk in these difficult times. From a regulatory perspective, one of the most prominent issues front and center for attendees was the upcoming Ginnie Mae stress testing program. Ginnie is concerned nonbank lenders will not be profitable enough nor will they have the capital levels necessary to sustain losses in adverse market conditions and plans to introduce stress testing of its participating originators. And nonbanks have picked up the share of Ginnie Mae originations that the banks have shed in recent years.

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In this white paper, Ginnie guidance states: “New requirements will soon begin phasing in that subject Issuers to an analysis of how their financial strength would be impacted by adverse future scenarios. These ‘stress testing’ exercises will play an increased role in our dialogues with Issuers and oversight activities in the future…. Ginnie Mae’s evaluations of Issuer risk will be based upon modeled and other multiple-factor analyses.”

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