UWM has its own non-agency MBS shelf, allowing the lender/servicer to directly issue deals. However, the company continues to contribute mortgages to non-agency MBS issued by others.

Roughly two years ago, a Canadian pension fund bought into SitusAMC. Now, rumors are circulating the entire firm might be up for grabs.

The Mortgage Bankers Association and the Housing Policy Council are calling on Ginnie Mae to end temporary pooling restrictions imposed on reperforming loans during the pandemic.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says inflation has been high enough long enough to warrant a quicker reduction in the central bank’s MBS purchases. Time for mortgage bankers to worry?

The latest NPL sales at Fannie and Freddie add to the more than 130,000 of these loans they’ve unloaded from their portfolios since 2014.

Fannie’s deemed-issuance ratio for 2022 dropped as the government-sponsored enterprise accounted for a lower share of deliveries to UMBS; MISMO is working to standardize the bid-wanted in competition dataset format.

The Ginnie Mae issuer market is dominated by nonbanks but at least one issuer/servicer is heading for the hills: Home Point.

The SFA has developed a framework due diligence providers can use to help address uncertainty prompted by new qualified-mortgage standards.

The latest delay to implementation of margin requirements for agency MBS is tied to changes proposed to Rule 4210 following FINRA’s discussions with staff at the Federal Reserve and the SEC.

A recent white paper from three academics attempts to cast some light on the practice of Ginnie Mae EBOs. But should the end investor be worried?