Although the FHFA received more than 1,300 comments on proposed changes to its membership rules, it has yet to issue a final regulation.

The privately held Guild Mortgage, San Diego, said it funded $10.7 billion in home mortgages through the first nine months of 2015...

The privately held Quicken Loans was also the biggest originator of government-insured loans, accounting for 5.7 percent of the sector.

For all of 2015 Radian predicts that it will pay $700 million in net claims, but next year that figure could fall to as low as $400 million.

Meanwhile, the volume of securitized retail loans was down 3.6 percent from the second quarter.

Its captive insurance affiliate, CYS Insurance Services, became a member in the FHLB of Cincinnati in March of this year.

The megabanks – Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and U.S. Bank – ranked first through fourth, respectively, with a combined agency market share of 40.3 percent at Sept. 30.

Mike Fratantoni, chief economist at the MBA, said the purchase market could keep growing right off the end of the forecast table.

On a year-to-date basis, new ABS production was down 4.5 percent from the first nine months of 2014.

The CSP joint venture is staffed and “no longer living like poor cousins” at the GSEs themselves.