The nation’s largest banks revealed better-than-expected residential origination figures (for some) and mouth-watering markups on the value of their servicing portfolios. That’s the good news. But it wasn’t all wine and roses. On the servicing front, BOK Financial revealed that fourth quarter income was reduced by $17.4 million because it left servicing-related hedges on the books for too long, betting that rates would stay low for an extended period of time. PNC Bank saw...[Includes one data table]

Nonbank servicers have a particularly big footprint in the Ginnie market, accounting for 53.6 percent of servicing outstanding at Dec. 31…

Late last year, RPM made what it called an “investment” in American Eagle Mortgage of Ohio…

The delinquency rate on the package is just 0.65 percent, based on number of loans…

BB&T saw residential loan production decline in the fourth quarter while its servicing portfolio fell by less than 1 percent.

Early in its existence, IndyMac was a nonbank and had been grub-staked by Countrywide Financial...

The evolution of the agency mortgage-servicing market isn’t over, though it appears to have settled into a long-term transition by attrition. At the end of 2016, depository institutions serviced some $3.584 trillion of single-family home loans committed to mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae. That was down 1.0 percent from September, a period during which the supply of agency MBS debt outstanding was growing. The depository share of agency MBS servicing fell...[Includes two data tables]

In general, the Treasury nominee said his goal is to find a “bipartisan solution” to Fannie and Freddie...

USB blamed the weaker mortgage performance on “lower origination and sales volume.”

One mortgage insurance lobbyist, when informed of the possibility, called it “great news” while two lenders we interviewed said it was an awful development…