Some 91.8 percent of REIT MBS holdings ($211.95 billion) are in agency securities…

Freddie Mac’s Gina Healy said the GSE expects to do another front-end MI transaction this month.

The only way Fannie and Freddie are going to lose money is if there’s a hedging loss. And even then, it will be a non-cash charge…

Mortgage originators and the government-sponsored enterprises in the first quarter of 2017 continued to distance themselves from the contentious sparring over repurchase demands related to loans sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac prior to the housing market collapse. An exclusive Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of GSE repurchase disclosures shows a spike upward in total repurchases during the first quarter, but the move was linked to ... [Includes two data charts]

The nonprime residential market is getting more attention as the big product categories hit the skids.

Watt noted the CRT coverage has come at a financial cost – and that Fannie and Freddie have been paying a premium.

Among the 32 servicers in Inside Mortgage Finance’s large delinquency index, only two reported an increase in total late payments…

What if the FHFA cuts the payments and hands Treasury an IOU? The possibilities are endless...

For the most part, several different factions of the mortgage industry have applauded the move by the Federal Housing Finance Agency to allow Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to build some type of capital buffer. Now comes the hard part: the details. Early this week, FHFA Acting Deputy Director of the Division of Conservatorship Bob Ryan said in a speech that the capital buffer plan would entail a delay of dividend payments to the U.S. Treasury Department – not an elimination of them. No other specifics were provided...

Craig Phillips, counselor to the Treasury secretary, recently spoke about the importance of credit-risk transfers, the role of private capital in the mortgage market and burdensome regulations. During a credit-risk transfer symposium in New York City earlier this week, he said it’s important to grow participation in the government-sponsored enterprises’ CRT programs. “Every dollar of risk today is a dollar less of taxpayer risk,” said Phillips. “In my view we should continue...