In roughly 10 business days, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – which guarantee half of all mort-gage debt in the U.S. – will run out of capital unless their regulator at the Federal Housing Finance Agency does something about it.

Members of the House Financial Services Committee this week approved a bill that would sus-pend Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac contributions to the Housing Trust Fund if the government-sponsored enterprises don’t pay dividends to Treasury. The panel approved the bill on a partisan vote of 33 to 27.

The CHLA repeated its plea that FHFA Director Mel Watt withhold GSE dividend payments to Treasury and allow Fannie and Freddie to build capital…

Moody’s noted that mortgages acquired by Chase’s jumbo conduit have performed exceptionally well…

In a new blog posting, Investors Unite asks the basic question: “Are Fannie’s and Freddie’s foes driving GSE reform?”

The conforming mortgages in the deal were largely originated by correspondent lenders…

Late-payment rates rose due to a number of factors…

USAA reported a 17.0 percent sequential drop in VA lending while Navy Federal boosted production by an impressive 51.1 percent.

The dollar volume of outstanding subprime mortgages continues to decline…

MBA: Fannie and Freddie should only undertake those activities that support secondary market liquidity…