Through the first nine months of 2016, Freddie Mac earned $2.97 billion. It lost $354 million in 1Q and then turned around and posted a $993 million profit in the second quarter.
Pingora Loan Servicing, Matrix Financial Services and Arvest Bank were the top acquirers of GSE servicing through co-issuance over the first nine months of the year.
Earlier in the year, the IRS said it planned to strengthen the protections for e-services accounts by requiring a stronger identity verification process for existing and new accounts.