Maverick, which will take on the Home Point name, services roughly $1 billion in home mortgages.

Business is booming at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac thanks to a healthy surge in refinance activity, according to a new Inside Mortgage Finance analysis of mortgage-backed securities issued by the two government-sponsored enterprises during the first quarter of 2015. Fannie and Freddie issued a total of $189.92 billion of single-family MBS during the first three months of the year. That was up 5.9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2014, and it marked the biggest output for the GSEs since the third quarter of 2013. Early 2015 was leaps and bounds ahead of the pace set during the same period last year, which marked a 14-year low in mortgage production. All of the oomph came...[Includes three data charts]

Refinance loans accounted for over half (62.2 percent) of total GSE business during the first quarter...

Zacks Investment Research downgraded MGIC Investment Corp. by two notches...

In years past, some have likened Fannie and Freddie to being giant thrift institutions...

Tomkinson plans to increase CashCall’s licensing by an additional 30 states within 60 days.

An outside public relations representative for RoundPoint said the company does not comment on M&A rumors.

Former Fannie Mae CEO Daniel Mudd testified Tuesday in a civil trial over losses the GSE suffered on nonprime MBS...

Residential originations for the group fell 45.7 percent from 2013, indicating that profit margins shrank slightly more than production volume.

Some 16 single-borrower SFR rental deals have been issued since the market came to life in November 2013.