The new request for information, issued Tuesday, solicits comments on all aspects of data collection...

Simone Grimes, who holds the title of special advisor, is still employed by the agency.

However, some large commercial banks are willing to remain in the market through correspondent arrangements…

The trading peak for the year came in February at $239.2 billion.

Angel Oak Lending, Citadel Servicing and Navy Federal Credit Union all had IO gains of more than 60 percent during the quarter.

ICBA: “They [Freddie] can say whatever they want to, but financing MSR crosses the line.”

The Federal Housing Finance Agency and Treasury Department have asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to not entertain a rehearing in the Collins v. FHFA government-sponsored enterprise shareholder case.

Chimera Investment is preparing to issue a non-agency mortgage-backed security in which all the loans are eligible for sale to the government-sponsored enterprises. The deal is backed solely by mortgages on investment properties, according to presale reports by DBRS and Moody’s Investors Service. The deal follows a similar issuance in May by Flagstar Bank as industry analysts suggest that non-agency MBS offer issuers better execution than delivering some types of ...

The idea to ban nonbanks from the FHLB system (via the captive loophole) increasingly looks like a head-scratcher....

Originations of government-insured mortgages rose 11.2 percent from the first to the second quarter of 2018, according to Inside Mortgage Finance estimates. That increase was slightly lower than the 17.1 percent gain in total first-lien originations over that period. The big winner for the second quarter was the jumbo sector, where loan volume surged 33.5 percent from the first three months of the year. On a year-to-date basis, government lending was down 12.6 percent from the first half of 2017. This reflects the steep decline in refinance lending in general, which affected FHA/VA production significantly. Jumbo lending was also down, by 6.6 percent, from the first six months of last year, but the conventional-conforming market saw a 4.2 percent gain at the midway point in 2018. FHA/VA loans accounted for 22.8 percent of first-lien originations in the first half of 2018. The government share for all of last year was ... [Chart]