An investigation was launched last week into whether banks have been manipulating the prices in the government-sponsored enterprises’ unsecured debt.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency and Morningstar Credit Ratings recently expanded the types of products they will assess with new criteria for Property Assessed Clean Energy ABS and single-asset/single-borrower commercial MBS, respectively.

All three agencies saw gains from April volume with Fannie posting the biggest increase…

Treasury counselor Craig Phillips advised meeting participants to assure their bosses and government affairs offices that Treasury is fully committed to the project. “If you have problems, tell them to call me,” he quipped.

At press time, it was unclear why GenEquity Mortgage closed its doors…

Home equity outstanding hit a peak of $13.43 trillion in the first quarter of 2006 then tumbled during the financial crisis...

To conservatives in the financial services industry, Mick Mulvaney is a hero.

Commercial banks and savings institutions once again reduced their holdings of mortgage servicing rights during the first quarter of 2018, according to an Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of call-report data. [Includes one data chart.]

Trading in mortgage servicing rights is as good as it’s been for years, but it remains a small market full of pricing and transactional irregularities, according to industry experts speaking on a panel at the secondary market conference sponsored by the Mortgage Bankers Association last month.

Retail loan production gained share in the jumbo and government-insured markets during the first quarter of 2018 but lost a little ground in the conventional-conforming space, according to survey data compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance. [Includes two data charts.]