Roughly 75 percent of bank loan officers cited put-back risk by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as an important factor limiting their current ability or willingness to approve home-purchase loans.

Besides entering the servicing arena, Two Harbors Investment Corp. is building an originator network to issue non-agency jumbo mortgage-backed securities on its own.

Two Ohio pension funds that owned stock in Fannie Mae sued the GSE in 2004 related to a $6.3 billion overstatement of earnings.

The GSE "common securitization platform" is under construction and already potential add-ons are being discussed, including a loan acquisition module.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency plans to survey residential borrowers about how they were treated by lenders.

The mortgage industry wants lower Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac/FHA loan limits. But will it happen?

The game is on: MBA wants a single GSE security and will lobby aggressively on the issue.

It's official: Come January of next year, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will only be able to purchase qualified mortgages.

A new investment banking firm wants to help nonbanks raise capital.

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae pumped out a respectable $152.3 billion in new single-family MBS in April, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS market analysis and ranking. April’s issuance level was up 2.6 percent from March and reversed, at least temporarily, a two-month downturn in new production. The cyclical peak for the agency MBS market came back in November 2012, when a whopping $199.4 billion in new securities were issued. Although the market couldn’t sustain...[Includes one data chart]