Watt and his staff do not want taxpayers to foot the bill for failing mortgage guarantors…

The nonbank share of agency servicing grew by 4.7 percentage points during 2017.

Most of the mortgages in the MBS were underwritten with full documentation…

Nonbanks will likely account for over half of outstanding agency single-family servicing by the end of 2018 if market trends continue as they have in recent years.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been charged with exploring options to update their current FICO credit scoring model and make a decision this year as to whether to make the switch in 2019.

The REIT has a current market cap (share price multiplied by number of units outstanding) of $5.27 billion.

Expanded-credit MBS – which include loans with alternative documentation, non-qualified mortgages and nonprime loans – hit $4.08 billion in 2017…

In the new MBS, 41.9 percent of the mortgages were eligible for sale to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…

GSE reform may emerge from the Senate Banking Committee, but as for final passage...

The agency – which still doesn’t have a permanent president – issued $443.2 billion of MBS backed by forward single-family mortgages in 2017, a 10.8 percent decline from the previous year.