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Meanwhile, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continued to get less of their business from their five biggest customers.

Fannie's "Collateral Underwriter" will provide up to 20 comparables and appraisers will have to defend the comps they use...

“It’s hard to believe the FHFA will release the PMIER rules without doing something on LLPAs,” said one official.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had a stellar year for their risk-sharing transactions in 2014, selling off portions of the credit risk associated with $369.7 billion of MBS, greater than four times the $84.7 billion amount seen in the prior year, according to Fitch Ratings. Meanwhile, “performance of the transactions remains exceptionally clean,” analysts at Fitch said in a new report this week. The performance seen in 2013 was based...

The U.S. Supreme Court this week denied a petition by major banks to reject a lower court decision to allow a National Credit Union Administration MBS lawsuit to go forward. The SCOTUS chose not to hear the case, a lawsuit filed by the NCUA to recover damages suffered by five now-defunct federal credit unions as a result of investments in non-agency MBS sold by the banks. The suit is...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency will unveil nonbank capital guidelines for servicers by mid-year. Also on the docket: Changes to loan level price adjustments..

If 2015 is anything like 2014, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be getting over half of their single-family business from nonbanks by the end of the year. A new Inside The GSEs analysis of loan-level mortgage-backed securities data reveals that nonbanks accounted for 44.8 percent of Fannie/Freddie MBS issued in the fourth quarter of 2014. That was up from a nonbank share of 37.2 percent during the fourth quarter of 2013 and just 28.1 percent back in the first quarter of that year. As a group, nonbank sellers increased their total GSE sales by 2.9 percent from the third quarter to the fourth quarter, while the overall market declined by 2.1 percent. The biggest ... [with two exclusive charts] ...

It appears that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may be slowly backing away from making large servicing advance facilities to certain nonbank customers. In a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Green Tree Servicing said it amended an existing facility it had with Barclays Bank, increasing the line to $1.2 billion from just $100 million. A subsidiary of Walter Investment Management, Green Tree then turned around and repaid Fannie Mae some $765 million on the outstanding balance of an existing advance facility. It’s unclear how large Fannie and Freddie are in the advance market, but one servicing advisor had this to say on the topic: “Fannie is the largest lender of servicer advances in the business simply through ...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency threw a few new wrinkles into its 2015 marching orders for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while sticking to major themes from 2014. Under the broad heading of maintaining credit availability, the two GSEs are expected to finish making improvements to their representation-and-warranty framework regarding loan originations, as well as continue clarifying their expectations regarding servicer performance and remedies. A new assignment for Fannie and Freddie is to assess the use of alternative credit scoring models, including operational and systems issues. The GSEs are expected to be ready to implement new duty-to-serve requirements when the FHFA implements a final rule. The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 directed the agency to issue regulations describing ...