Mnuchin said the 30-year FRM cannot survive without Fannie and Freddie...

Treasury would be barred from selling or disposing of “any senior preferred shares, any interest in the warrants, any common shares acquired upon the exercise of the warrants, or any other equity interest that were acquired pursuant to the Senior Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement.”

Ginnie may require offenders to recalibrate their high-risk portfolio to more acceptable risk levels…

One advisor familiar with the situation called the hiring of Samples and a recent batch of layoffs at FGMC, “a clean sweep of the corporate suite.”

Industry consultant Joe Garrett: “Commissions to retail loan officers are still just about the biggest expense in the industry.”

MGIC said the origination of such loans accelerated last summer when Fannie Mae eased guidelines on loans with 45 percent and above DTI.

The authors note that 90 percent of Fannie/Freddie MBS trading occurs in the TBA forward market.

In total, 13.5 percent of the 2,000 women who were sent the survey responded.

A record year in agency multifamily MBS issuance pushed the overall commercial mortgage securitization market to an all-time high in 2017, according to a new analysis by Inside MBS & ABS.

Remarkably, Freddie Mac knocked out roughly $34.60 billion in multifamily MBS – over half of its total for the year – during the fourth quarter...