Global rating agency Moody’s Investors Service in its latest report has said that the recommendations of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Housing Finance Committee, if implemented, will be credit positive for Indian residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) because it will increase the likelihood that a suitable replacement can step in and take the place of a failed operator. In May 2019, the RBI had constituted a committee on the development of housing finance securitisation market to look into the current state of mortgage securitisation in the country and make recommendations to address various issues relating to originators/investors as well as market micro structure.
It has said the report recommended specific measures for facilitating secondary market trading in mortgage securitisation instruments. Besides, it said the recommendations to standardize loan servicing processes across home loan lenders will make it easier to transfer loan servicing from one provider to another, if the original provider fails. Adding further, it said the committee recommended linking of home loans pricing to an external, such as the repo rate. It stated that such a correlation will mitigate interest rate risk in RMBS transactions as it will remove the interest rate mismatch between a lenders own benchmark rate and coupon rates.
Moody’s further said that the RBI also recommended standardizing loan documentation criteria and establishing minimum loan eligibility and disclosure requirements for RMBS deals. It noted that the move will increase transparency in the country's mortgage sector, reducing risks in the underlying loans backing RMBS deals. It added that the recommendation on the tax treatment of securitization transactions will remove uncertainty for originators and investors.
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