Prices for seasoned performing whole loans declined slightly during the third quarter, according to MountainView Financial Solutions. The secondary market for performing/re-performing whole loans has been “extremely active” this year, according to the firm’s residential whole-loan trading desk and transaction advisory teams.

The average daily trading volume in agency MBS fell to $206.4 billion during November, the worst reading since August and the third lowest of the year, according to figures compiled by the Se-curities Industry and Financial Markets Association.

Deutsche Bank, asset managers and investors have agreed to settle their long-running dispute over the bank’s alleged failure to fulfill its obligations as trustee to more than 500 trusts backed by legacy residential MBS valued at more than $570 billion.

Digital mortgage is the cornerstone of Ginnie Mae’s efforts to modernize its operating systems as it vies for industry leadership in technology and innovation, according to top agency executives.

Issuance volume and lending practices in the prime non-agency mortgage-backed security market in 2019 will be linked in several ways to the government-sponsored enterprises, according to industry analysts. Volume projections for prime non-agency MBS depend on pricing differences between non-agency execution and delivery of loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Non-agency lenders are also expected to increasingly use tools developed by the GSEs. “We expect robust issuance from ...

FHA officials have sounded alarms over the rising concentration of higher-risk loans in new business. An exclusive new Inside FHA/VA Lending analysis shows they have good reason to be concerned. (chart)

Mortgage-backed securities analysts are recommending that Ginnie Mae temporarily place VA cash-out refinance loans with high loan-to-value ratios in custom pools until the VA implements new rules to curb churning in cash-out refis.

Mortgage broker trade group introduces NAMB All-In. Genworth launches risk-based pricing engine. VA updates fee-cost schedule. Industry groups pressure Senate to confirm Trump nominee for GNMA.

VantageScore Solutions has hired Emre Sahingur, a former chief risk officer for model risk management at Fannie Mae, as senior vice president for predictive analytics, research and product management.

As profit margins tighten in a softening origination market, more lenders are pondering a move into correspondent purchases, especially if the company is already table-funding mortgages in the wholesale channel.