The Structured Finance Association is evaluating the most popular corporate ESG frameworks to see how they could be applied in the securitization industry.

Fannie and Freddie continue to take different routes to reducing their retained mortgages portfolios.

Fannie’s CEO is set to retire. The GSE chair is departing as well; Waterfall Asset Management launches non-agency MBS with Ginnie EBOs; hurricanes impacting performance of solar ABS.

Nonbanks continued their dominance in the MSR sector, a fact that likely keeps some federal regulators up at night...

U.S. Bank, another top-10 player in home finance, saw its home lending volume slip 34.1% from 4Q21...

Note: Borrowers must still have a credit score, which must be provided at delivery.

The program will reduce refinancing costs for pre-identified minority homeowners whose mortgages are serviced by Wells.

It’s earnings season and the early results have not been encouraging when it comes to home lending. Then again, no one really expected good news. But will 1Q22 be the low point and then a bounce?

While states offered broad temporary flexibilities regarding LO licensing and location requirements during the pandemic, the transition out of the temporary standards has been bumpy.

Steeply lower production volumes call for new lending ideas. Right? Some A-paper shops are jumping into the non-QM pool. Will it save the day or result in higher delinquencies?