The number of mortgage-related examinations by the CFPB declined in most areas with one glaring exception: nonbank residential originators…

However, GSE reform will require a bipartisan effort and already other priorities are developing…

California mortgages account for the large chunk of collateral at 41.2 percent. Texas is a distant second at 10.4 percent.

Bradd Gold of Au Consulting LLC noted that in the year prior to their federal takeover, Fannie and Freddie sold $10 billion of GSE junior preferred.

Piper analyst Kevin Barker and his team estimate that so far in 1Q17, the average refi volume is down 26 percent from fourth quarter levels.

With Republicans now in control of the White House and both houses of Congress, Hensarling plans to make even more cuts to regulations for rating services.

For the full year, GSE seller repurchases totaled just $1.101 billion, a record annual low…

The nonagency/nonprime MBS market is expected to get some attention at the SFIG show, but not much…

Once the GSEs turned it around and showed a whiff of profit the speculators pounced and bought the shares on the cheap...

“Since reaching a trough in mid-2013, the rebound in household debt has been led by student debt and auto debt, with only sluggish growth in mortgage debt,” said one New York Fed official.