Just over $224 billion of mortgages to first-time homebuyers were included in agency MBS issued in 2014, according to figures compiled by IMF.

Regarding Altisource, the phrase “catch a falling knife” comes to mind. Cooperman is the Chairman and CEO of Omega Advisors…

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Still, the four super-sized U.S. banks – those with more than $1 trillion in assets – continue to rank in the top five GSE sellers.

In settling, S&P did not admit or deny any of the allegations levied against the firm.

Assisting DocMagic with its work on RESPA-TILA disclosures is Richard Horn, a former senior advisor at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...

“It’s hard to believe the FHFA will release the PMIER rules without doing something on LLPAs,” said one official.

Meanwhile, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continued to get less of their business from their five biggest customers.

If 2015 is anything like 2014, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be getting over half of their single-family business from nonbanks by the end of the year. A new Inside The GSEs analysis of loan-level mortgage-backed securities data reveals that nonbanks accounted for 44.8 percent of Fannie/Freddie MBS issued in the fourth quarter of 2014. That was up from a nonbank share of 37.2 percent during the fourth quarter of 2013 and just 28.1 percent back in the first quarter of that year. As a group, nonbank sellers increased their total GSE sales by 2.9 percent from the third quarter to the fourth quarter, while the overall market declined by 2.1 percent. The biggest ... [with two exclusive charts] ...

The U.S. Supreme Court this week denied a petition by major banks to reject a lower court decision to allow a National Credit Union Administration MBS lawsuit to go forward. The SCOTUS chose not to hear the case, a lawsuit filed by the NCUA to recover damages suffered by five now-defunct federal credit unions as a result of investments in non-agency MBS sold by the banks. The suit is...