All three agencies saw new MBS issuance slow in November, though Ginnie held up slightly better. Both purchase-mortgage and refinance activity were down. (Includes two data charts.)

The Mortgage Bankers Association and the Housing Policy Council are calling on Ginnie Mae to end temporary pooling restrictions imposed on reperforming loans during the pandemic.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says inflation has been high enough long enough to warrant a quicker reduction in the central bank’s MBS purchases. Time for mortgage bankers to worry?

The latest NPL sales at Fannie and Freddie add to the more than 130,000 of these loans they’ve unloaded from their portfolios since 2014.

Fannie’s deemed-issuance ratio for 2022 dropped as the government-sponsored enterprise accounted for a lower share of deliveries to UMBS; MISMO is working to standardize the bid-wanted in competition dataset format.

The Ginnie Mae issuer market is dominated by nonbanks but at least one issuer/servicer is heading for the hills: Home Point.

The latest delay to implementation of margin requirements for agency MBS is tied to changes proposed to Rule 4210 following FINRA’s discussions with staff at the Federal Reserve and the SEC.

A recent white paper from three academics attempts to cast some light on the practice of Ginnie Mae EBOs. But should the end investor be worried?

Nick Maciunas, head of agency research at JPMorgan, spoke about how COVID-related forbearance loan modifications may impact Ginnie investors during a recent podcast hosted by the agency.

Don Layton said critics don’t like credit-risk transfers because they make the GSEs stronger and more durable.