Expanded-credit MBS – which include loans with alternative documentation, non-qualified mortgages and nonprime loans – hit $4.08 billion in 2017…

Galante is a former FHA commissioner who presently serves as faculty director of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California Berkeley. She also sits on the board of Ocwen Financial.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are working with the nation’s mortgage insurance firms to revise rescission relief principles...

Banks and nonbanks alike are in a rush to build digital lending platforms that are consumer friendly and result in cost savings...

In the new MBS, 41.9 percent of the mortgages were eligible for sale to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…

GSE reform may emerge from the Senate Banking Committee, but as for final passage...

The agency – which still doesn’t have a permanent president – issued $443.2 billion of MBS backed by forward single-family mortgages in 2017, a 10.8 percent decline from the previous year.

Chase continues to grow the volume of residential whole loans kept on its balance sheet: $197.3 billion at yearend compared to $181.2 billion at the end of 2016.

Thanks to the new bill signed by President Trump, Wells enjoyed a $3.35 billion after tax benefit. However, the company also recorded a $3.25 billion pre-tax expense tied to “litigation accruals for a variety of matters, including mortgage-related regulatory investigations..."

The government-sponsored enterprises both ended 2017 with record-setting numbers in the mul-tifamily market. Freddie Mac issued $68.0 billion in multifamily securities last year, up from $51.2 bil-lion the previous year.