“After the ‘taper tantrum’ you had a whole bunch of institutions that got annihilated when the 10-year Treasury rate moved," said analyst Christophe Whalen of KBRS.

It was the biggest quarter in GSE private MI activity since the third quarter of 2013...

The underlying collateral is located in all 50 states, but Texas accounts for the largest count of loans at 1,220.

Private mortgage insurance volume was up sharply in the second quarter, based on a new Inside Mortgage Finance analysis of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities data. The two government-sponsored enterprises securitized $52.59 billion of single-family loans with private MI coverage during the period. That was up 21.5 percent from the first quarter, and it lifted year-to-date volume 42.4 percent above the level during the first six months of last year. It was...[Includes two data tables]

The nation’s subservicers increased their contracts to a record high $1.350 trillion at March 31 as tougher regulations continued to play a key role in the shifting of processing chores away from depositories to nonbanks. On a sequential basis, contracts increased by 7.1 percent in the first quarter and 14.4 percent compared to March 31, 2014, according to a new Inside Mortgage Finance ranking. Only four banks – Flagstar, Cenlar, Wells Fargo and Bank of America – were among the top 20 subservicers. Overall, at March 31, subservicers were...[Includes one data table]

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac completed 65,960 foreclosure-prevention actions during the first quarter of 2015, a slight increase from the previous period, according to a recently released report from the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Of that number, there was a 1.0 percent uptick in the number of loan modifications in the first quarter. The number of completed repayment and forbearance plans rose somewhat faster, by 7.2 percent and 8.2 percent, respectively. The FHFA said...[Includes one data table]

Mortgage repurchase volume fell 9.5 percent from the fourth quarter and it was down 12.3 percent from the first three months of last year.

CSS identified the trade group advisors by organization, but not by their individual names.

There are three major cooperatives that serve as middlemen between lenders and various counterparties: Lenders One, Capital Markets Cooperative and The Mortgage Collaborative.

CMLA argues that “moving implementation to January [from October] will allow lenders and settlement service providers a more gradual implementation of the new disclosures in a lower pressure environment.”