When originations fall, loan trading platforms suffer as well. Maxex, one of the more high-profile traders, recently instituted cuts.

Come April, LLPAs on Fannie/Freddie second-home mortgages and high-balance loans move higher. Good time for a nonbank to start a conduit?

A subsidiary of Entergy Corp. is offering a $290.0 million securitization backed by system restoration charges on electric customers to help pay for recoveries from storms in southeast Texas in recent years.

The Structured Finance Association is assessing investors’ and brokers’ preferences for replacing LIBOR in structured finance bonds.

The market for Ginnie Mae MBS should begin to normalize soon, according to T. Rowe Price executive Keir Joyce.

Failure to submit a timely and specific repurchase demand involving pre-2008 non-agency MBS doomed a U.S. Bank lawsuit.

Most companies that issued non-agency MBS with GSE-eligible investment-property loans during the fourth quarter haven’t offered similar deals thus far in 2022.

The nomination of Sandra Thompson to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency moved forward this week when the Senate Banking Committee voted 13-11 in her favor.

Billions of dollars in delinquent FHA/VA mortgages are still available for purchase in the whole-loan market if you have the knack for rehab-and-release. But for how long?

In case you haven’t noticed, MBS prices are sagging a bit these days, courtesy of higher interest rates. Trading volume is lower, but not exceedingly. What’s ahead? Mostly fog.