Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac acquired $57.17 billion of single-family loans with private MI coverage during the second quarter…

The top three Ginnie Mae issuers in 2Q17 were PennyMac, Wells Fargo and Freedom Mortgage…

The $5.5 billion (to be) paid by RBS should boost GSE earnings big time...

Some critics say the underserved markets proposals put forth by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac don’t focus enough on increasing loan purchases. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in May issued draft proposals for boosting financing for certain underserved markets under the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s duty-to-serve requirements. The rule focuses on three specific markets: manufactured housing, rural housing and preserving affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households. The National Low Income Housing Coalition said...

RBS will pay approximately $4.53 billion to Freddie and approximately $975 million to Fannie.

Some 15.2 percent of the mortgages in Chase’s second-quarter MBS were eligible for sale to the government-sponsored enterprises.

The big question: Will the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee support an explicit government guarantee on conventional MBS?

FHFA’s status as an independent agency headed by a single director makes it different from almost every other independent agency…

“Rated nonprime non-qualified-mortgage transactions should broaden the investor base,” Deutsche Bank said.

Efforts in the Senate to reform the government-sponsored enterprises appear likely to include a government guarantee for whatever replaces the current system involving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. “It seems to me that the consolidation is coming around the fact that we do need to have an explicit [catastrophic] guarantee,” said Sen. Bob Corker, R-TN. “We need to acknowledge that it’s going to be there.” He made the statement last week at a hearing on housing-finance reform by the ...