Some of the debt-to-income ratios in the new SoFi MBS are below 20 percent.

One market watcher said two other mortgage servicing rights packages totaling $10 billion are ready for bid.

With refis drying up, Ally is ready to launch a direct-to-consumer mortgage effort…

JPMorgan Chase readies its fifth jumbo MBS deal of the year...

The Federal Reserve continues to be the largest investor in the MBS market, though it has long since stopped growing its portfolio…

If Cato's Mark Calabria becomes FHA chief, private MI firms could benefit…

Origination of commercial mortgages could reach $515 billion this year, a slight improvement over 2015, but more lenders – life insurance companies and banks, in particular – are keeping the loans on their books, which doesn’t bode well for CMBS issuance. It’s the same conundrum facing the jumbo residential market: plenty of lending, but not so much in the way of securitization. As Inside MBS & ABS reported recently, issuance of CMBS increased...

ResCap Liquidating Trust last week filed two new lawsuits against lenders as it continued its efforts to recover losses due to bad loans purchased from correspondents that later forced the company into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. No other details were provided by defendant attorneys with American Mortgage Law Group, which warned that the Dec. 2 filings in Minnesota federal district court may trigger a second wave of litigation by the trust. AMLG said it has been helping a number of lenders with pre-litigation demands from the trust and has seen increased activity on that front. On Nov. 16, a federal judge dismissed...

“That’s a lot of work for an industry that apparently doesn’t exist,” said Richard Johns, SFIG’s executive director.

Late this week, Nationstar’s common was selling for $19.17 a share, just pennies below its yearly high. PennyMac Financial topped its high for the year.