Roughly 100 guests were invited to the Ginnie Mae "liquidity summit," including regulators from the Federal Reserve.

Chase serviced $169.70 billion of jumbos at March 31, up 27.3 percent from the year before….

Seneca – whose backers include The Blackstone Group, EJF Capital and Arbor Commercial Mortgage – may not be so growth-oriented going forward.

Consultant Joe Garrett noted that if investors are worried about marketplace lenders in the current credit environment, just wait until the economy eventually goes south...

Chase, which has significantly increased its jumbo originations in recent years, more than doubled its IO originations in the first quarter.

More servicing auctions are hitting the market but sellers have to be realistic on pricing...

Social Finance (SoFi) and Guaranteed Rate are among the lenders advertising their interest-only offerings online…

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau this week issued an interim final rule showing an 8.5 percent increase in the maximum civil penalties it can obtain for various consumer protection violations…

The long-awaited correction in MBS prices was put on hold this week with the news that the Federal Reserve isn’t ready to hike interest rates anytime soon. Moreover, now there’s a growing belief among some economists and mortgage market watchers that the central bank may not raise interest rates at all this year. And there’s even a school of thought that suggests the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury bond might hit 1.0 percent before it reaches 2.0 percent. As Inside MBS & ABS went to press this week, the 10-year was...

Late this week we were hearing reports about one mortgage cooperative that was trying to strike a deal with one of the GSEs regarding pricing breaks for its members...