Ginnie Mae tightened several regulations relating to its mortgage-backed securities program over the last month as its MBS issuance hit a two-year low in early 2011. Ginnie All Participants Memo 11-04 changed rules that had allowed servicers to include delinquent loans into Ginnie pools. The memo told...[Includes one data chart]

The Department of Housing and Urban Development clearly spelled out that lenders must be discrete in their use of the FHA “Approved Lending Institution” insignia and defined other specific regulations relating to logo use in a letter to lenders this week. Improper use of HUD or FHA logos can result...

California is the biggest beneficiary of the federal government’s massive footprint in the single-family mortgage market, accounting for 19.9 percent of all loans securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae during the first quarter of 2011. A new analysis based on the Inside Mortgage Finance MBS Database reveals...[Includes one data chart]

After taking a steep drop in production during the first quarter, the agency MBS market will likely see another downturn in new issuance in the second half of this year. A total of $340.8 billion of single-family MBS were issued during the first quarter by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae. That was...[Includes three data charts]

Following last week’s lengthy and at times contentious markup session where then House Financial Services Capital Markets and GSE Subcommittee pushed through a package of eight bills to bolster oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, industry observers are still working to get their arms around...

The member advance business – the core product line for the Federal Home Loan Banks – continued to decline at the end of 2010, hitting a nine-year low. The 12 FHLBanks reported a total of $478.6 billion in outstanding advances at the end of last year, down 24.2 percent from the end of 2009. It was the lowest volume of... [Includes two data charts]

Newly issued guidance from the Federal Housing Finance Agency requires Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks to report any fraudulent financial instruments that they purchased or sold. but the guidance also requires Fannie and Freddie to take the extra step of submitting monthly fraud reports to...

The outgoing president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City turned some heads this week when he declared that the nation’s largest banks and recipients of federal bailout funds should be re-branded as government-sponsored enterprises and their lending activities should be curtailed accordingly. Thomas Hoenig reportedly told...

A recent survey by the New York-based Reputation Institute found that Freddie Mac is the least reputable company to do business with, while fellow GSE Fannie Mae was named the third least reputable company, but an expert advised that it’s not the end of the world for publicity-challenged companies. The private consulting firm conducted...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency last week approved some updates to Fannie Mae’s corporate performance goals which the company will use to determine executive compensation. Fannie’s newly approved 2011 corporate goals will be the barometer by which performance will be measured for the purposes of the first installment of the...