Many independent mortgage companies that are relatively new to the mortgage servicing market are actively managing their portfolios in a constantly shifting environment, according to panelists at the annual convention of the Mortgage Bankers Association. The surprisingly cheap cost of retaining mortgage servicing rights during the 2012 bonanza led a number of nonbank lenders to start amassing MSR portfolios. It has become a valuable tool in managing cash flow and earnings in the volatile mortgage production market of recent years. Guild Mortgage is...

Although the FHFA received more than 1,300 comments on proposed changes to its membership rules, it has yet to issue a final regulation.

Over the past five quarters, Flagstar has unloaded $25.2 billion of residential servicing rights.

Meanwhile, the volume of securitized retail loans was down 3.6 percent from the second quarter.

Its captive insurance affiliate, CYS Insurance Services, became a member in the FHLB of Cincinnati in March of this year.

The megabanks – Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and U.S. Bank – ranked first through fourth, respectively, with a combined agency market share of 40.3 percent at Sept. 30.

On a year-to-date basis, new ABS production was down 4.5 percent from the first nine months of 2014.

The CSP joint venture is staffed and “no longer living like poor cousins” at the GSEs themselves.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac rolled into their eighth year of government conservatorship pushing forward the two major reforms they can accomplish under their existing charters: selling off a significant portion of the credit risk on their current business and building a new MBS platform. Top officials from the two government-sponsored enterprises urged the industry to be patient about the launch of the common securitization platform and, a little further down the road, the single security for GSE to-be-announced MBS. “It will happen...

Issuance of non-mortgage ABS fell 31.7 percent from the second quarter of 2015 to the third quarter, with significant declines in most major sectors, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS ranking and analysis. A total of $37.00 billion of ABS were issued in the third quarter, well off the pace set in the first half of the year. On a year-to-date basis, new ABS production was down 4.5 percent from the first nine months of 2014. That puts in jeopardy the string of four consecutive annual increases in ABS issuance since 2010 as the market enters the final lap of the year. Vehicle finance deals remained...[Includes two data tables]