TIAA is headed by Roger Ferguson, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.

The 22 regional banks fared a lot better, reporting a combined $903.5 million of mortgage-banking income…

One of the largest players in the "new" nonprime mortgage industry is Citadel Loan Servicing, Irvine, CA, which now has a portfolio totaling $600 million.

Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo are preparing to issue the first commercial MBS that will comply with risk-retention requirements, according to presale reports published this week. While industry participants continue to debate which type of risk-retention will be more commonly used, the pending $870.56 million MBS will include vertical retention. Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust 2016-BNK1 received provisional AAA ratings from Fitch Ratings, Kroll Bond Rating Agency and Standard & Poor’s. Fitch said the three originators contributing to the MBS will retain credit risk representing 5.0 percent of pool balance via the vertical retention option. Risk-retention requirements for commercial MBS take effect...

The senior tranche of the MBS will include credit enhancement of 6.40 percent, similar to the credit enhancement levels of previous deals from Two Harbors.

If you’re a multifamily lender, the future looks bright with record production expected for 2016.

California accounts for the largest share of the collateral at 12.8 percent, based on dollar volume. Florida is second at 8.6 percent.

Some industry reps say the omission of more guidance on cures will hurt the jumbo secondary market, where anxiety over assignee liability is high...

The three agencies securitized $43.09 billion of purchase mortgages last month, a 15.3 percent increase from June.

Looks like JPMorgan Chase is getting ready to issue yet another jumbo MBS...