The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new guidance on mortgage services agreements has given the industry little confidence about such arrangements and likely helped push another major lender, Bank of America, to shutter its MSA ventures. BofA decided to the pull the plug on all marketing services agreements it has with realty firms, including RE/MAX. The bank told IMFnews, an affiliated daily service, that it will discontinue all “space rental agreement programs due to recent regulatory developments.” Its MSA agreements will end...

Ginnie Mae has expressed concern about the influx of nonbanks into its MBS program and their ability to remain as active participants.

“We are hopeful this lawsuit will be resolved quickly so the fee waiver is granted, the data we seek is produced by HUD and the public is granted access to this important information,” the CRC said.

The mortgage refinance business began losing steam in the third quarter, but purchase-mortgage lending helped sustain agency single-family MBS production during the period, according to a new market analysis and ranking by Inside MBS & ABS. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae combined to issue $351.70 billion of single-family MBS during the third quarter of 2015, a slight 0.3 percent decline from the previous period. Even with the slowdown, year-to-date agency MBS volume of $976.40 billion had already topped the $929.49 billion in gross issuance for all of last year. The bright spot was...[Includes two data tables]

Banks, thrifts and credit unions increased their agency mortgage-backed security issuance by 0.9 percent from the second to the third quarter, while nonbank issuance was down 1.3 percent.

A significant percentage of active Ginnie Mae issuers use subservicers in their operations, and agency officials estimate that 22 subservicers handle roughly a third, or $510 billion, of the program’s portfolio. The four top subservicers handle approximately 21 percent of Ginnie’s total portfolio or 65 percent of the subserviced portion. During the recent Ginnie Mae annual conference in Arlington, VA, representatives from Lakeview Loan Servicing, Pingora Asset Management and ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac saw a modest decline in the flow of home loans into their mortgage-backed securities programs during the third quarter of 2015, according to a new analysis and ranking by Inside Mortgage Finance. The two government-sponsored enterprises issued a total of $223.47 billion of single-family MBS during the third quarter, a 3.8 percent decline from the previous quarter. Freddie had a slightly larger downturn (4.1 percent) than Fannie (3.6 percent). Although overall MBS volume was down, lenders delivered...[Includes three data tables]

Roughly 45 percent of FHA-insured, first-lien purchase mortgages had annual percentage rates in excess of the reporting threshold...

Like many banks that have had run-ins with the DOJ and HUD IG, Fifth Third's FHA volume has fallen dramatically.

The flow of FHA purchase mortgages jumped 37.7 percent from the second to the third quarter, and VA purchase mortgages rose 37.9 percent over the same period.