In a new report, Cowen gives the early lead on the FHFA job to Mark Calabria, chief economist to Vice President Mike Pence...

The capital and liquidity requirements targeted by Treasury were largely established by the Basel III accords and the Dodd-Frank Act…

The GSEs and Ginnie Mae remain the dominant forces in the MBS/ABS market. Their combined single-family issuance hit $346.98 billion in 3Q17…

Purchase-mortgage activity in the GSE market surged 21.5 percent higher in the third quarter – and Fannie recorded a whopping 35.9 percent jump in such business…

Nonbanks lack the deposit base banks have to support their investments in mortgage servicing rights, but nonbanks are seeing increased liquidity in terms of MSR financing. The government-sponsored enterprises and Ginnie Mae have also adjusted their acknowledgement agreements to make MSR financers more comfortable in the sector, with further changes likely. “In the nonbank mortgage sector, there is a big need for the financing of the MSR asset,” Vandy Fartaj, chief capital markets ...

Kroll Bond Rating Agency projects that about $11.0 billion of prime non-agency MBS will be issued this year…

But that didn’t stop the conservative from the Lone Star state from offering up some critiques on the FHFA...

The Fannie/Freddie MSR portfolio has no delinquencies whatsoever…

FHFA Director Mel Watt: “In fact, it is especially irresponsible for the enterprises not to have such a limited buffer..."

The MBS is backed by 3,548 mortgages that have seasoned for more than 11 years, on average.