Data initiatives meant to streamline technological innovations and provide better information are actually giving mortgage lenders a hard time. A new report by Fannie Mae showed that 74 percent of lenders agree that attempts to standardize data are needed, but many run into challenges in implementation.

Ginnie Mae is planning to make enhancements to its disclosure offerings in 2018 and 2019 to benefit MBS issuers and investors.

The NAR request comes at a time of rising interest rates…

Fannie and Freddie issued just $2.01 billion of structured credit notes during the fourth quarter, a sharp 44.5 percent drop from the previous period…

Bill Maloni, a retired Fannie executive who’s been tracking the reform debate for years, believes the Corker bill, if enacted as is, eventually will place the secondary market in the hands of the megabanks.

Calabria is a former director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute, a conservative think tank that would like to do away Fannie and Freddie…

Ginnie Mae late last week cautioned servicers in its single-family mortgage-backed securities program to pay more attention to “acceptable risk parameters” that could affect their participation in the program.

The FHFA would be tasked with maximizing profits on any asset sales by Fannie and Freddie, according to the Corker bill…

“Jerry Buckley would fit the bill perfectly,” said one industry lobbyist...

Flagstar contributed $1.02 billion to jumbo MBS last year, or 9.4 percent of the total market…