Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and their government overseer are considering adding new features to the common securitization platform in addition to the major components in the initial design, according to officials speaking at the Mortgage Bankers Association Secondary Market Conference in New York this week. A potential addition to the project would include “life flow data” about the mortgage transaction, said Manoj Singh, associate director in the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. The common securitization platform, or CSP, has been focused on the securitization function, but feedback from the industry has raised the prospect of expanding it to house all the data points that could be needed over the life of the loan, including foreclosure disposition, if it comes to that. Once the government-sponsored enterprises start...

Walter Investment, which posted strong earnings for 1Q13, is in exclusive talks to buy $10 billion of mortgage servicing rights.

Fannie Mae is set to "give back" $50.6 billion to the U.S. Treasury by June 30, thanks to stellar earnings and accounting treatment of deferred tax assets.

Ocwen has registered preferred shares with the NYSE. The sale will benefit WL Ross & Co.

The issue of Fannie Mae encouraging lenders to sell for cash instead of securitizing has been a hot topic over the past few months.

Total primary mortgage insurance coverage provided by private MIs fell 6.5 percent to $50.44 billion in the first quarter, a figure that includes HARP loans.

A company affiliated with MBS co-inventor Lewis Ranieri is moving closer to issuing a security backed by "prime-quality" non-agency loans.

Freddie Mac has been profitable for six quarters but needs to show positive earnings for six more before it can recapture its deferred tax asset.

A $750 million offering of nonperforming mortgages is expected to go down this week. Meanwhile, NAFCU is mad at FHFA over the QM rule.

Roughly 75 percent of bank loan officers cited put-back risk by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as an important factor limiting their current ability or willingness to approve home-purchase loans.