The robust second quarter brought year-to-date agency MBS issuance to $562.02 billion, just 1.3% below the level reached in the first six months of last year.

The for-cause provision has been front and center in a case currently before the Fifth Circuit...

Meanwhile, whatever happened to all that chatter about Amazon.com buying loanDepot?

As of January 2019, Fannie employed 7,400 people compared with 7,200 a year earlier, according to 10-K filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. There was no mention of the word “buyout” or “buyouts” in the SEC filing.

Residential loan sales by Wells Fargo tumbled 23% while U.S. Bank suffered a 38% sequential decline…

The privately held Stearns originated $4.5 billion of home mortgages during the second quarter, a 45% sequential gain…

The other lenders that Moody's looked at: Ditech Financial, Freedom Mortgage, Mr. Cooper, New Residential, Ocwen Financial, PennyMac Financial Services, Provident Funding Associates and Stearns Lending...

“This case, which clearly presents the question whether the CFPB is constitutional, is an ideal vehicle for the court’s review,” wrote Seila Law. “The petition for a writ of certiorari should therefore be granted.”

Mortgages eligible for sale to the GSEs will account for 13.1% of the $353.4 million deal, which is more than double the share of GSE-eligible mortgages in the previous expanded-credit MBS from Redwood.