Ginnie Mae has issued a flurry of program updates over the past few months, making public the work that was going on behind the scenes during a quieter period last year.

Growth was fueled by agency MBS as REITs decreased their holdings of non-agency loans in the second quarter. (Includes two data tables.)

Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes added four attorneys to its structured financial products litigation practice this year.

Vandad Fartaj will lead capital market initiatives and investment strategies, with an emphasis on mortgage servicing rights.

Ginnie Mae and the non-agency MBS sector led residential MBS over the $10 trillion mark in the second quarter. Mutual funds and foreign investors increased their holdings. (Includes two data tables.)

MBS purchase levels at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue to disappoint lenders looking for help with interest rates, though prospects look better for September reporting.

The third-party analytics models used by bond traders now accept VantageScore 4.0 loans, but their methodologies were designed before the confusion around loan-level price adjustment grids.

Interest rates on mortgages increased steadily throughout the second quarter, diminishing demand among non-agency MBS investors to some extent. (Includes data table.)

Some lenders are seeing better execution for GSE-eligible investment-property mortgages in non-agency MBS.