SG Capital Partners focuses on loans with higher balances than other nonprime MBS aggregators.

On the plus side, Wedbush sees mortgage servicers and home builders benefitting…

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-CA, the ranking member of the panel, would not acknowledge that Mulvaney is the head of the agency but asked him questions anyway.

Wertheimer testified that during her tenure, the FHFA-OIG has issued 85 reports and made 117 recommendations to address supervisory shortcomings.

Along with nearly all mortgage indicators, the flow of insured home loans into agency mortgage-backed securities slowed significantly during the first quarter of 2018, but early indicators suggest the FHA market may have been somewhat more resilient. [Includes three data charts.]

The Department of Veterans Affairs is close to issuing a final anti-churning rule to better protect veterans from predatory lending practices as well as developing an end-to-end system to monitor loan performance from origination to servicing.

With mortgage production coming under pressure in early 2018, some lenders are doing what might seem chancy: paying large signing bonuses to top-producing loan officers.

Fannie Mae last month tweaked its underwriting system to account for the greater risk in loans with high debt-to-income ratios.

At his first appearance before Congress as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mick Mulvaney restated his desire to reform the agency, while defending his leadership from Democrats’ harsh accusations that he is undermining the bureau.

Pershing Square Holdings, one of the largest speculators in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac common stock, is doubling down on its investment in the two government-sponsored enterprises by taking a different tack: Instead of increasing its positions in the common, it’s been buying up the junior preferred as well.