“Home-equity lending, for years the red-headed stepchild of our industry, is coming back into favor," said CoreLogic's Sam Khater.

Residential lenders issued a record $435.8 billion of Ginnie Mae securities in 2015, according to Inside MBS & ABS, a handsome 47 percent increase from the prior year.

In addition to misrepresenting prices sought by buyers and sellers of MBS, the DOJ said Siegel and co-conspirators misrepresented that bonds held in RBS’s inventory were being offered for sale by a fictitious third-party seller…

Four nonprime MBS backed by newly-originated residential loans came to market during the last four months of 2015, but none of deals were rated, a situation that could change in the new year. In a recent interview with Inside MBS & ABS, John Hsu, head of capital markets for Angel Oak Capital, said his company hopes to get a rated deal done in 2016, believing such a milestone would help move the nascent market forward. “We need...

The IBM-owned Seterus has been buying mortgage servicing rights from Ocwen Financial...

Depending on the product, loan amounts can range from $100,000 to $250,000...

PHH Mortgage remained the predominant IO lender with $3.43 billion during 3Q15, but the firm’s volume fell 16.9 percent on a sequential basis.

The Two Harbor deal ends a span of 31 days without a presale report for a new non-agency security.

Jordan lends in roughly 45 states and its loans have an average life of about eight months. The nonbank extends credit at rates of 10 to 12 percent.

Nine firms issued jumbo MBS in 2015 and JPMorgan Chase was the top issuer for the second year in a row.