Most of the mortgages in the MBS were underwritten with full documentation…

Nonbanks will likely account for over half of outstanding agency single-family servicing by the end of 2018 if market trends continue as they have in recent years.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been charged with exploring options to update their current FICO credit scoring model and make a decision this year as to whether to make the switch in 2019.

The REIT has a current market cap (share price multiplied by number of units outstanding) of $5.27 billion.

Expanded-credit MBS – which include loans with alternative documentation, non-qualified mortgages and nonprime loans – hit $4.08 billion in 2017…

In the new MBS, 41.9 percent of the mortgages were eligible for sale to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…

GSE reform may emerge from the Senate Banking Committee, but as for final passage...

The agency – which still doesn’t have a permanent president – issued $443.2 billion of MBS backed by forward single-family mortgages in 2017, a 10.8 percent decline from the previous year.

The Department of Veterans Affairs and Ginnie Mae are ramping up efforts in 2018 to curb serial refinancing, including long-term solutions, increased portfolio monitoring and protection for veterans against predatory lending practices.

Non-agency MBS issuance had its best quarter of 2017 during the final three months of the year, boosting annual production 30.2 percent higher than in 2016, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside MBS & ABS.