Then again, Fannie and Freddie don’t buy everything that’s eligible. In recent months, there has been a burst of non-agency MBS issuance backed by GSE-eligible loans...

New Acting FHFA Director Thompson's first personnel move: elevate existing staff.

When it comes to lending products, the 'Stagecoach" is lightening its load...

The MBS will be the first from Citi with GSE-eligible loans and it marks PennyMac's return to the sector after years away.

For some sellers, the curbs don’t represent much of a bump in the road. For Quicken Loans, the top GSE seller over the 12-month period, investor/second-home loans were roughly 5.5% of its sales to both Fannie and Freddie.

Also, there will be no restrictions on loan size...

The mortgage M&A market is pockmarked with indecisive sellers...

After warning the council about the risks posed by government money market funds, Calabria went on to point out that these funds have large exposures to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks.

Ball game over for depository residential originators?

The common and “junior” preferred investors were (more or less) given up for dead in late 2008...