For all of 2015 Radian predicts that it will pay $700 million in net claims, but next year that figure could fall to as low as $400 million.

Phoenix Capital is out with a new “flow” servicing offering where the seller will deliver $40 million to $50 million per month in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac product.

In other GSE news, the Senate version of legislation to cap CEO salaries at Fannie and Freddie is moving along and a vote could happen this week…

During his career, Chris Nard also headed ORI’s mortgage insurance division, Republic Mortgage Insurance.

As the head of the NAIHP, Savitt has been a frequent critic of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...

Mike Fratantoni, chief economist at the MBA, said the purchase market could keep growing right off the end of the forecast table.

The megabanks – Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and U.S. Bank – ranked first through fourth, respectively, with a combined agency market share of 40.3 percent at Sept. 30.

New Actual-Loss Risk Transfers for Fannie, Freddie. This week, Fannie Mae announced that it priced its latest credit risk-sharing transaction under its Connecticut Avenue Securities series. While this is Fannie’s 9th CAS deal, this is its first CAS transaction structured using an actual-loss framework, which will be the standard for the CAS program going forward. The $1.45 billion note offering is scheduled to settle on Oct. 27. Meanwhile, Freddie Mac also announced its intention to sell its seventh Structured Agency Credit Risk debt notes offering this year for more than $1 billion. This STACR Series 2015-DNA3 offering is the company’s fourth transaction where losses will be allocated based on the actual losses. FHFA, GSE Departures. The most recent Fannie Mae executive...

As anticipated, the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced that it decided to finalize plans to use its existing “expanded data” House Price Index for tracking home prices for setting Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s maximum conforming loan limits. During the comment period, industry participants largely supported the plan but questioned the extent to which conforming loan limits should be adjusted. The FHFA said it will release the maximum conforming loan limits for 2016 using the expanded-data HPI at the end of November. The most recent FHFA House Price Index was released late this week and reported a 0.3 percent increase in U.S. house prices in August from July. Year-over-year, house prices were up 5.5 percent.