Fink is expected to leave Fannie Mae in the second half of the year.

One GSE watcher called it, "The biggest company quarterly profit since the Roman Empire, adjusted for inflation of course.”

As its footprint in the residential credit market expands, counterparties are looking to Annaly as a source of liquidity…

GSE originators have long complained that the rep-and-warrant policies need to be more transparent.

How much slack can the purchase market pick up? We’re about to find out…

Despite what the experts anticipated, small banks are staying out of the MSR market...

Rep. Sherman of California noted: “Studies have shown that in some geographic areas, it is possible to determine the identity of nearly 100 percent of the borrowers using the data that lenders are required to collect and report by the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.”

Deephaven is headed by former Goldman Sachs managing director Matt Nichols, who earlier this year predicted strong growth for the correspondent buyer of non-QM loans…

“Our ability to maintain or grow our servicing business may depend, in part, on our ability to acquire servicing rights from, and/or enter into subservicing contracts with, third parties,” the company said in an SEC filing.

The Department of Veterans Affairs this week expressed willingness to work with Congress and mortgage industry participants to find a solution to the agency’s ongoing appraiser shortage. Testifying during a hearing held by the House Veterans Affairs’ Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, representatives of the VA Home Loan Guaranty Service, the National Association of Realtors, the Appraisal Institute and Clear Capital said the shortage of appraisers has led to long delays in obtaining appraisals and loan closings, as well as high appraisal costs. The VA appraisal program has been...