During debate on H.R. 10, the Democrats used a procedural maneuver to force a reading of a large portion of the bill’s text…

Perhaps the new Treasury secretary finally looked at the numbers, realizing that Fannie and Freddie – wards of the government since September 2008 – forked over roughly $20 billion to Uncle Sam…

Some analysts believe the Supreme Court’s ruling will result in the filing of new claims, but the Buckley Sandler law firm sees it differently...

The Mortgage Bankers Association, for its part, expressed strong support for some provisions of the Hensarling bill…

If Mr. Cooper was the first choice, what were the others?

S&P said the revisions are intended to better reflect the evolution of the U.S. residential mortgage market over the past several years…

Stevens credited the Federal Housing Finance Agency with making “significant progress” in fixing the flaws of Fannie and Freddie...

The regulator cautioned that a large downpayment alone isn’t sufficient to prove a borrower’s ability to repay a non-QM that is based on the consumer’s assets.

The Republicans made a big splash earlier this week promoting the Hensarling bill, motivating the Democrats to employ a parliamentary ploy that has not been used in the committee in 20 years.

A lot of ABS issuers that sat out the final three months of 2016 came back to the market early this year, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis and ranking. Some $53.38 billion of non-mortgage ABS were issued during the first quarter, a huge 55.9 percent jump from the previous three-month period. The market didn’t quite match the high point of last year, but issuance in the first three months of 2017 was up 23.1 percent from the same period in 2016. First-time issuers and those that didn’t issue in the fourth quarter accounted...[Includes two data tables]