One GSE source close to the CSP project noted that Yanoti was one of the platform’s “leaders,” but cautioned that “there are others as well.”

Affordable housing advocates are continuing their full-court press against the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, demanding that the FHFA greenlight financing for the dormant National Housing Trust Fund after a setback in federal court. U.S. District Court Judge Marcia Cooke of the Southern District of Florida last week dismissed a lawsuit brought by the National Low Income Housing Coalition on the grounds that the NLIHC lacks standing to sue the FHFA. Cooke also found that the court does not have jurisdiction over the decisions of the agency. The coalition filed...

New York Law School professor Richard Epstein took issue with Judge Lamberth’s ruling that HERA doesn’t take away any “cognizable property rights.”

Is it that the FHFA doesn't want to take a stand on g-fees because it fears alienating the industry?

Are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives just wage slaves? And is there something wrong with that?

In other servicing-related auctions, The Prestwick Group is working on three bulk deals and three flow transactions.

Quick question: What’s the difference between student loan debt and mortgage debt? One is impossible to extinguish by going through bankruptcy.

IMT also found that in 3Q, seven of the top 15 sellers to Fannie and Freddie were nonbanks.

Among our findings, a few things stand out, including the ascension of PennyMac to the number two position among Ginnie Mae issuers.

The agency single-family MBS market posted its best quarter in a year as total issuance climbed to $267.33 billion during the third quarter of 2014, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis and ranking. The combined MBS issuance of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae rose 6.6 percent from the second quarter of 2014, hitting its strongest level since the third quarter of last year. On a year-to-date basis, agency MBS remained 48.7 percent below the pace set in the first nine months of 2013. Even the long-suffering non-agency MBS market showed...[Includes two data charts]