RMBS Premium
The RMBS subscription covers non-prime credit, CRT, MSRs, HEIs, BTL loans, reverse mortgages, and more. The offering delivers forward-looking analytics and sector-specific intelligence, helping investors and issuers track performance trends, structural shifts, and risk drivers across the full spectrum of residential mortgage credit.
Rating Publications
KBRA delivers end-to-end RMBS insight through pre-sale and new issue reports, streamlined tear sheets, and continuous surveillance coverage
Pre-Sale/New Issue Reports
Our Pre-Sale and New Issue reports deliver forward-looking credit analysis that help market participants evaluate new transactions with confidence.
These reports provide in-depth insight into deal structure, collateral quality, and key credit considerations.
Surveillance Reports
Timely reviews to validate rating alignment with performance and evolving conditions.
Historical Ratings
Review affirmations, upgrades, downgrades, and withdrawals to derive performance context.
Coverage
KBRA Premium delivers deep, sector-specific insights across prime, non-prime, CRT, and HELOC/CES RMBS— empowering market participants to track emerging risks, benchmark performance, and make data-driven decisions.
Subsectors
Credit Risk Transfer
Home Equity
Non-Prime
Other/Esoteric
Prime
Seasoned
Single-Family Rental
Small Balance CMBS/RMBS
KBRA Comparative Analytic Tool (KCAT)
Excel-based interface built to provide statistics about residential mortgage collateral for many of the deals in the RMBS rated universe
Database provides loan-level borrower and collateral characteristics, such as credit quality, LTV, loan purpose, and geographic concentration
The tool produces comp tables using user selected deals to highlight key statistics across both KBRA-rated and non-KBRA transactions with deals dating back to 2010
Market Insights & Research
KBRA Premium provides actionable RMBS market intelligence, including default studies, borrower and credit trend analysis, conference takeaways, and performance insights from KBRA’s RMBS credit indices.
Monthly RMBS Credit Indices
KBRA’s RMBS Credit Indices deliver transparent, data-rich monitoring of delinquencies, modifications, prepayment activity, and other performance drivers across the key RMBS subsectors—from prime and non-prime to CRT and HELOC/CES.
Annual Sector Outlooks
Industry outlook, year in review, performance themes, trends, and forecasts generally published annually or semiannually.
Conference Recaps
KBRA attends and participates in numerous industry conferences and events. Our recaps of these events are an industry must-read.
Rating Stability & Transition Studies
Analyzes the consistency and evolution of KBRA’s credit ratings over time. These studies track upgrades, downgrades, affirmations, and withdrawals across sectors—helping market participants assess rating performance, transition trends, and long-term credit stability.
KBRA Portfolios
Platform Capabilities
A centralized, intuitive dashboard for tracking KBRA credit ratings and analytics across your portfolio or sectors of coverage:
Upload your list of securities and issuers in seconds
Configure an Excel-style grid—toggle metrics, view ratings and structural features
Filter, sort, and slice across entity, sectors, or timeframes
Receive real-time notifications on your portfolio
KBRA Alerts
Receive timely updates from your coverage areas so you don’t miss anything:
One-click subscriptions to ratings and research alerts
Custom filters and views across sectors and names
Alerts delivered via email and your notification dashboard
Request a Consultation (RMBS)
Ready to explore how KBRA Premium can bolster your credit insights and decisions? Whether you’d like a demo, pricing, or tailored support, our team is here to help.