Bank of America is retaining more of its GSE-eligible loans, though the strategy can result in short-term decreases to mortgage-banking income.

Perhaps the new Treasury secretary finally looked at the numbers, realizing that Fannie and Freddie – wards of the government since September 2008 – forked over roughly $20 billion to Uncle Sam…

Since the fall of 2008, Treasury has controlled the senior preferred stock in Freddie and Fannie, making the U.S. government the de facto owner of the two - and the linchpin to the housing and mortgage markets.

If Mr. Cooper was the first choice, what were the others?

S&P said the revisions are intended to better reflect the evolution of the U.S. residential mortgage market over the past several years…

Stevens credited the Federal Housing Finance Agency with making “significant progress” in fixing the flaws of Fannie and Freddie...

With Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac set to lose their capital buffers in eight short months, industry trade groups, think tanks and policy wonks are churning out reform blueprints at warp speed these days even though Congress likely won’t act until sometime next year, if then. Last week, the Mortgage Bankers Association floated its plan to reconstitute the two government-sponsored enterprises – followed by several critiques, not all of them kind – and this week the Independent Community Bankers of America published its proposal. Both plans throw...

A fair question: If there’s no federal guaranty on conventional MBS will the housing and mortgage markets tank?

Sources told IMFnews that the CFPB was seeking a settlement in the range of $50 million from the servicer...

The range on the flow or co-issuance arrangement is $35 million to $50 million per month.