Freddie Mac announced this week it has obtained insurance to cover some $285 million of losses on a pool of home loans as part of a risk-sharing effort encouraged by the government-sponsored enterprises’ regulator. The performance of these deals has been “stellar,” according to one analyst. The policies, tied to loans the GSE bought or guaranteed in the second quarter of 2013, were obtained under Freddie’s Agency Credit Insurance Structure. First rolled out in November 2013, this week’s most recent ACIS deal – the largest to date – demonstrates...

The sale of mortgages by banks took it on the chin in the first quarter. Lower originations is one explanation but are banks keeping more of their own production?

Nonbank capital rules from the FHFA will add certainty to the MSR market, but there will plenty of indigestion along the way.

There has been plenty of talk about mortgage M&A, and now it appears that deals are finally happening.

The most profitable business for Fannie and Freddie is loans with high credit scores and LTV ratios of 60 percent or less.

In case you haven’t noticed, many mortgage stocks are trading much closer to their 52-week lows than their highs.

The biggest source of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac business during the first five months of 2014 came from loans with high credit scores and loan-to-value ratios that don’t require mortgage insurance, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis. Some 34.0 percent of mortgages securitized by the two government-sponsored enterprises through May of this year had credit scores of 740 or higher and LTV ratios ranging from 61 percent to 80 percent ... [Includes one data chart]

Bayview Asset Management of Coral Gables, FL, is entering the mortgage origination business at a precarious time: Funding volumes this year could fall to just $1 trillion, one of the worst showings since the turn of the century. But that hasn’t deterred the privately-held company, whose investors include the well regarded BlackRock Financial. Since launching a correspondent purchase program a few months ago, Bayview has reviewed roughly $500 million in collateral, purchasing ...

There’s no one-size-fits-all compliance solution for mortgage lending institutions these days, regardless of their size. But some top compliance professionals recently offered a variety of principles and guidelines to help compliance officers build the best framework possible for their banks. Speaking at the American Bankers Association’s regulatory compliance conference in New Orleans this month, Lyn Farrell, managing director at Treliant Risk Advisors ...

Diversity and inclusion are no longer just a compliance issue, a window dressing or a matter of being “politically correct” but a corporate tool for achieving profits, attracting and developing new talent, and an appropriate response to an increasingly diverse marketplace, according to experts at an industry summit held in Washington, DC, this week. The three-day summit was organized by the Mortgage Bankers Association’s diversity and inclusion committee to ...