One mortgage expert warns that lowering GSE loan limits one step at a time to $417,000 could leave parts of the residential market underserved.

A new modification program from Freddie Mac also will pay mortgage servicers $1,400 per unit for each successful loan restructuring.

If. Sen. Franken has his way, the MBS rating system will change. Meanwhile, top executives at Impac Mortgage clean up.

As adopted, Appendix Q of the QM rule requires items to be considered and verified for the two prior years, and requires well-documented projections for the following three years.

Bank of America and MBIA announced a settlement this week of a long-running dispute regarding representations and warranties on mortgages securitized by Countrywide Financial. The settlement benefits non-agency MBS wrapped by MBIA, according to industry analysts. The settlement applies to all outstanding rep and warrant claims and all other claims between the bank and bond guarantor. BofA agreed to pay MBIA approximately $1.6 billion in cash and remit to MBIA all of the outstanding notes in the firm that BofA acquired in December. BofA also will terminate...

The first GSE risk sharing transaction is likely to be a senior-subordinate structure and be issued as a credit-linked note.

Although it's unlikely that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will engage in principal reductions anytime soon, a new report from CBO says it could do some good.

Will investors in GSE stock sue the federal government for "sweeping" earnings out of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Meanwhile, PennyMac worries about its "Countrywide" problem.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will no longer purchase loans that are interest-only, loans with 40-year terms or loans with points and fees exceeding the thresholds of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s “ability to repay” rule, the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced this week. The FHFA said it is directing the GSEs to limit their future mortgage acquisitions to loans that meet the requirements for a qualified mortgage, including those that meet the special or temporary qualified mortgage definition, and loans that are exempt from the CFPB’s “ability to repay” requirements under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

Fannie Mae and its former auditor KPMG LLP have agreed to pay $153 million to resolve a long-simmering class action lawsuit brought by investors seeking to recover damages, according to an announcement Tuesday by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine. Two Ohio pension funds – the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System and the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio – filed suit in 2004 related to a $6.3 billion overstatement of earnings against Fannie and three former GSE executives, including then-CEO Franklin Raines.