Are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives just wage slaves? And is there something wrong with that?

There have been some reports – unconfirmed – that some Wall Street firms are considering extending “repo” lines to non-QM funders, but that hasn’t happened yet.

In other servicing-related auctions, The Prestwick Group is working on three bulk deals and three flow transactions.

Quick question: What’s the difference between student loan debt and mortgage debt? One is impossible to extinguish by going through bankruptcy.

IMT also found that in 3Q, seven of the top 15 sellers to Fannie and Freddie were nonbanks.

MountainView also will extend credit to borrowers who recently completed bankruptcy.

FHFA Director Mel Watt wants to ban companies from using their captive insurance affiliates from joining the FHLB system.

Among our findings, a few things stand out, including the ascension of PennyMac to the number two position among Ginnie Mae issuers.

Calvin Wong of Morningstar noted that rating shopping is most obvious in the commercial MBS market

The agency single-family MBS market posted its best quarter in a year as total issuance climbed to $267.33 billion during the third quarter of 2014, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis and ranking. The combined MBS issuance of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae rose 6.6 percent from the second quarter of 2014, hitting its strongest level since the third quarter of last year. On a year-to-date basis, agency MBS remained 48.7 percent below the pace set in the first nine months of 2013. Even the long-suffering non-agency MBS market showed...[Includes two data charts]