Keep in mind that hedging can be a tricky business, whether you're a GSE or not...

Among the top five contributors to jumbo MBS, all were nonbanks, except First Republic.

The remaining principal balance of securitized VA loans was $426.8 billion, up 5.1 percent from the prior quarter.

Discussing the new integrated disclosure rule known as TRID, Ishbia noted that loan brokers “adapted wonderfully and we are closing a lot of TRID loans.”

Among the top ten residential lenders, CitiMortgage and Bank of America had the weakest growth rate...

In an apparent confirmation of the fears of some industry representatives, CFPB Director Richard Cordray seemed to blame technology vendors for some of the failures the mortgage industry might have in complying with the bureau’s Truth in Lending Act/Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rule. “Quite frankly, I have been disturbed by reports I have been hearing about the vendors on whom so many of you rely,” Cordray said in a speech at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s annual convention in San Diego recently. “Some vendors performed poorly in getting their work done in a timely manner, and they unfairly put many of you on the spot with changes at the last minute or even past the due date,” ...

There is one GSE issue that Democrats and Republicans see eye-to-eye on: capping the pay of CEOs working for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The Highway Trust Fund reauthorization includes language that would raise GSE guaranty fees in five years.

New securitizations backed by commercial mortgages declined during the third quarter of 2015, but the market at the nine-month mark has nearly matched total issuance for all of last year, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis. Some $49.62 billion of income-property mortgages were securitized during the third quarter of 2015, down 15.8 percent from the second quarter. However, with $162.18 billion of commercial mortgage securities issuance through the first nine months of 2015, the market is poised to reach its highest annual volume since the financial crisis when the year ends. Both sides of the market – non-agency CMBS and agency multifamily MBS – saw...[Includes one data table]

A 10 basis point surcharge on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac guaranty fees that went into effect in 2012 could end up being extended for another five years as lawmakers on Capitol Hill look for money to back the federal government’s Highway Trust Fund. The 10 percent increase in the government-sponsored enterprises’ g-fees was designed to pay for an extension of a federal payroll tax cut. It is currently scheduled to run to 2021, generating $35.7 billion in revenue, according to the Congressional Budget Office. With transportation funding set to expire Oct. 29, the House this week approved...