A few days the megabanks will reveal 2Q earnings, letting us know how gain-on-sale margins are holding up.

Most banks carry their MBS in the “Available for Sale” accounting category, carried on the balance sheet at fair value.

As with previous MBS issued by Springleaf, the mortgages in the security were originated by firms owned by Fortress Investment Group.

The sale price breaks down as follows: $2.43 billion for the servicing advances and $241 million for the MSRs.

Citigroup, which runs an active NPL trading desk, acquired the assets from a large money-center bank.

The suit was filed in December 2012 on behalf of hundreds of thousands of investors who bought stock in an offering by Fannie in May 2008, four months before the GSE was taken over by the government.

New report sheds light on how much nonbank mortgage workers earn.

Freddie Mac is rolling out a new version of an old mortgage security product designed to distribute the credit risk of borrowers paying back their mortgages to the private markets. The government-sponsored enterprise has begun marketing a new product, the Structured Agency Credit Risk security, which is designed to lay off credit risk to the private capital market on a scalable basis without impacting the TBA market or increasing counterparty risk. Freddie attempted a similar product in 1998 before deciding it was a failure. A Freddie spokesman said...

A number of mortgage companies are preparing to go public. Meanwhile, non-agency MBS issuers are churning out deals again after a slight delay.

Rep. Mel Watt, D-NC, did himself no favors nor did he appear to win any new votes by turning in a lackluster performance at his confirmation hearing last week, but industry observers say President Obama’s nominee to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency could yet win Senate confirmation … with time. Both in his prepared testimony and during questioning by members of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, Watt placed a heavy emphasis on his biographical details, but he was light on mortgage-finance policy specifics. Republicans, as expected, politely hammered the Congressman on his technical qualifications, as well as his political independence, to serve a five-year term as the FHFA’s first permanent director.