The comment period on credit risk transfers ended Oct. 13 and letters from industry groups have been pouring in this week, with many primarily focusing on the issue of front-end versus back-end credit-risk transfers. While some advocate for more front-end risk- sharing deals, instead of the back-end ones that account for more than 80 percent of CRTs to date, others warned that “winners and losers” should not be picked. Back in June, the FHFA asked for industry feedback on various aspects of its CRT program. It also extended the deadline from August to October because industry stakeholders wanted more time to evaluate the questions raised in the request for input.

Reversing at least temporarily a long-running trend in the mortgage market, the four biggest banks in the U.S. expanded their presence in the GSE single-family market in the third quarter of 2016...

A total of $12.41 billion of non-agency MBS were issued during the third quarter of 2016, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis, but the market continued to rely heavily on a mix of recycled collateral and niche transactions. Overall issuance was up 78.3 percent from the second quarter, including big gains in prime MBS production and re-securitization deals. That still left year-to-date issuance off 43.9 percent from the first nine months of 2015. The huge jump in prime MBS production is...[Includes three data tables]

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sold $3.78 billion of credit-risk transfer bonds during the third quarter, a 7.8 percent increase from the previous period, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis of CRT disclosures made by the two government-sponsored enterprises. That brought year-to-date issue in Fannie’s Connecticut Avenue Securities program and Freddie’s Structured Agency Credit Risk program to $10.73 billion, up 13.3 percent from the first nine months of last year. Fannie had...[Includes one data table]

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac saw a robust 29.7 percent jump in single-family mortgage business during the third quarter, with most of the gain coming from the purchase-mortgage side of the business. And more purchase-mortgage business usually means a bigger share for correspondent lenders. Correspondent originations accounted...[Includes two data tables]

Given that the mortgage servicing industry seems far removed from where it was when the housing crisis peaked, what will become of default servicing in the years to come? For one thing, a certain amount of delinquency will always exist in the housing market, according to a new white paper from the Five Star Institute, which drew together research, insight and commentary from a host of industry resources and experts. “For all the loans that are out there, there will always be...

Private mortgage insurers are quietly gaining ground on their government-insured rivals in the critical home-purchase market, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of agency mortgage-backed securities data. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securitized $61.47 billion of purchase mortgages with private MI coverage during the third quarter, a gain of 33.4 percent from the previous period. At the same time, Ginnie Mae securitized $79.91 billion of FHA and VA purchase mortgages, up 19.3 percent from the second quarter. The private MI share of agency purchase loans rose...[Includes two data tables]

Trends in the agency mortgage-backed securities market suggest that private mortgage insurers may have gained some market share from government MI programs during the third quarter of 2016, according to a new Inside Mortgage Finance analysis. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securitized a total of $75.89 billion of insured single-family mortgages during the third quarter, an increase of 29.5 percent from the previous period. That was a tad below the 29.7 percent increase in overall MBS production by the two government-sponsored enterprises, but it kept the private MI share at 26.8 percent for the third quarter. Meanwhile, the booming Ginnie Mae market showed...[Includes two data tables]

Fannie Mae has significantly ramped up its nonperforming loan sales in 2016, while Freddie Mac is running slightly behind the pace it set in 2015. Fannie offered $4.69 billion of NPLs through the first nine months of this year, compared to $2.78 billion for all of 2015. The government-sponsored enterprise announced five more pools totaling $1.39 billion up for sale this week, moving the year-to-date total to $6.08 billion. The latest sale is...

Looks like private MI firms gained market share in the third quarter…