Among those weighing in on GSE capital: Michael Stegman, senior fellow at the Milken Institute, and former FHFA Acting Director Ed DeMarco...

Chris Boyle, chief client officer at Freddie Mac: “I don’t know how half of you make money.”

But AEI researchers weren’t the only ones throwing bombs…

Fannie’s board soon will begin its search for a new CEO – a position that will need the blessing of its largest shareholder, the U.S. Treasury Department.

After two years of work, the FHFA throws the idea out the window...

Among Fannie’s top five executives, all earn more money per year than Mayopoulos...

Fannie’s board soon will begin its search for a new CEO – a position that will need the blessing of its largest shareholder, the U.S. Treasury Department.

The top grower in the nonbank world was Freedom Mortgage, which upped its GSE servicing by $19.36 billion, 29.7 percent…

Moody’s: Reps and warrants aren’t as effective as reviewing every mortgage in a deal pre-securitization…

Although a number of large banks have recently shown more interest in the secondary market for mortgage servicing rights, there is no sign that the migration toward nonbanks is ending. A new Inside The GSEs analysis of mortgage-backed securities data shows that independent mortgage bankers increased their holdings of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac MSR by 2.0 percent from the first to the second quarter of 2018. Depository institutions recorded an 0.5 percent decline in GSE servicing rights over the same period. Most of the bank shrinkage came from the four institutions with over $1 trillion in total assets. Although Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup still held a whopping...