Packaging the loans into a non-agency MBS suggests that Flagstar expects better execution in the non-agency market than from delivering the mortgages to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.

KBR points out that risk-sharing results in premiums being shifted away from Fannie and Freddie to providers of credit risk protection.

The updated agenda is the CFPB’s first under Mulvaney’s leadership.

Barry Habib, who heads MBS Highway, believe that within two years, the U.S. will be in a recession...

Moody’s detailed profitability levels for four large private nonbanks: Freedom Mortgage, Provident Funding Associates, Quicken Loans and Stearns Lending.

The OCA consultation process was initiated in connection with an investigation by the Division of Enforcement that remains ongoing, the nonbank said.

Much of the product is projected to come from California, Florida and Texas.

Total U.S. debt outstanding is just over $21 trillion. Prior to the financial crisis, U.S. mortgage debt was actually larger than Treasury debt...

A group of Democratic senators is asking the U.S. Office of Special Counsel to investigate whether Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney violated the Hatch Act. The acting director last month said to bankers that he “had a hierarchy” in his office in Congress and only talked to lobbyists who gave him financial donations when he was a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina. “It raises troubling questions about whether his statements ran afoul of the Hatch Act ...

A former Fannie executive (pre-federal takeover) said that when he worked at the GSE, “We looked at doing this, but were told it wasn’t in the charter and so we didn’t proceed.”