Is it that the FHFA doesn't want to take a stand on g-fees because it fears alienating the industry?

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.

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

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

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

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

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securitized a total of $183.17 billion of single-family mortgages during the third quarter of 2014, continuing the improving momentum from the previous period, according to a new Inside The GSEs analysis. Combined mortgage-backed securities issuance for the two GSEs rose 29.1 percent from the second quarter, marking the second straight increase from the record-low levels set during the first three months of 2014. On a year-to-date basis, GSE volume was down 53.6 percent from the first nine months of 2013.

Between now and yearend, it should be a seller’s market for mortgage servicing rights, as long as the seller isn’t trying to unload legacy or “high-touch” product. Legacy deals – at least large ones – continue to be a non-entity in the market as buyers are focusing on smaller MSR packages tied to relatively new originations. One recent legacy deal that was scuttled entailed the sale of roughly $800 million in Ginnie Mae MSRs by Ocwen Financial. Industry advisors familiar with the situation aren’t sure why ...