Rob Zimmer, a former Freddie Mac executive: “Republicans run this town, obviously, and there is no way they want to be identified as the party of taxpayer bailouts for large financial institutions.”

Radian inked a deal with Wall Street underwriters this week to sell $450 million of senior notes due in 2024...

Nonbank lenders rely on their own capital and on warehouse loans to fund loans, rather than federally insured deposits...

Redwood Trust has approved 185 originators to sell Choice loans directly…

The amendments could take effect at the start of 2018…

But the non-agency jumbo market saw a healthy 18.6 percent increase in originations…

“We’ve gotten wind that we could see at least one other large money center bank enter the securitization markets,” said Christopher Abate of Redwood Trust…

The correspondence, which includes the signature of ranking minority member Sherrod Brown, D-OH, notes: “We are simply requesting that the GSEs be permitted to build capital...."

Of course, the RNC does not govern, but presumably the Trump administration has a line of communication into the political organization…

Mortgage originators that produce $1 billion to $4 billion a year in loans are continuing to be courted by potential suitors, but not many sale agreements are getting signed these days, according to investment bankers. “Private equity firms are still looking to enter the business, and sellers are listening, but I’m not seeing too many deals being completed,” said Chuck Klein, a managing partner at Mortgage Banking Solutions, Austin, TX. At the beginning of the year, Klein was...