Fannie inked just $5.26 billion in new credit-risk deals in 2020, and that total included a $425.6 million Connecticut Avenue Securities transaction...
Susquehanna International Group dismissed the private MI industry’s concerns over a potential FHA cut as “unwarranted” and not aligned “with the underlying math.”
The U.S. District Court of Chicago indicted four individuals for participating in a fraud scheme to obtain mortgage loans totaling at least $3 million.
The two major CU trade associations, the Credit Union National Association and the National Association of Federally Insured Credit Unions, and a number of other state-specific industry groups submitted letters in support of the proposal.
Roughly $249.81 billion of newly originated correspondent-generated home loans was securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae during the fourth quarter, up 20.3% from the prior period. This analysis covers 90.2% of the total agency market...
From a market perspective, all those forbearances are cumulative. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mae estimate that one in four of the borrowers who entered into forbearance continued to make their payments...
The new QM standards are set to take effect March 1 with a mandatory compliance date of July 1. Between March 1 and July 1 lenders can use the QM patch or the new standards but after July 1, originators can only use the new standards.
It’s not every day that a lender commits to sell $34 billion of MSRs. IMA is the investment banker on the package and speculation is rising on who the seller might be.
January agency MBS issuance ranked as the third largest monthly total on the record books. Production was almost exactly double the amount issued in January 2020, before the pandemic led indirectly to a massive refinance wave.
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