Fannie Mae is in the hunt for a new CEO to replace current chief Timothy Mayopoulos, but finding just the right candidate could prove difficult because of a $600,000 salary cap placed on the position back in 2015 by Congress.

The nation’s two largest real estate investment trusts that focus on the MBS market – Annaly Capital Management and AGNC Investment Corp. – have built up their MBS portfolios over the past year despite sluggish second-quarter activity.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders are working to make sure their cases against the government don’t get shoved aside after a string of adverse court decisions. Plaintiffs are looking to tweak their complaint to include a challenge based on a ruling in another case that the Federal Housing Finance Agency structure is unconstitutional.

Appraisal reductions in post-crisis commercial MBS are rising rapidly and may be a harbinger of future loan losses, warned Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Two major banks and a defunct subsidiary of Lehman Brothers have agreed to settlements with the Department of Justice to resolve legacy non-agency MBS disputes.

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The majority of loans in expanded-credit mortgage-backed securities are adjustable-rate mortgages, while such loans are few and far between in prime non-agency MBS, according to a new analysis by Inside Nonconforming Markets. [Includes one data chart.]

More competition is coming into the nascent business of aggregating non-qualified mortgages and issuing mortgage-backed securities drawn by the market’s potential for profitable growth.

A number of lenders have introduced new non-agency products in recent weeks, with an emphasis on expanded-credit jumbo mortgages.