Including securities backed by FHA home-equity conversion mortgages, total Ginnie single-family MBS issuance hit $508.62 billion, also a record.

The new department will be modeled after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to “provide consumers with more protection against unfair, deceptive, and abusive practices.”

Stronger GSE earnings will bolster retained capital, which could juice the recap-and-release debate even more…

There’s some skepticism regarding how quickly the FHFA and Treasury might act in 2020…

The panel will be chaired by conservative Todd Zywicki, a longtime critic of the CFPB…

According to one document we saw, Velocity has a post-IPO valuation ranging from $266 million to $304 million.

However, agency MBS was the star of the structured finance show in 2019…

As we reported a few weeks ago: Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions, a third-party non-QM lender, anticipates boosting loan originations by 66% next year to $5 billion…

Meanwhile, when it comes to the top seller/issuers, Quicken Loans was not too far behind market leader Wells Fargo: $126.9 billion to the megabank’s $132.4 billion…