Fannie and Freddie could top last year’s $824.8 billion in single-family MBS issuance by the time 2016 is over…

However, the sample deal agent agreement doesn’t address one of the remaining controversial issues: how much to pay for their services.

Senior Vice President of Issuer and Portfolio Management Michael Drayne said recently the revised acknowledgement agreement could be ready by the end of September.

NAFCU wants the FHFA to preserve existing Fannie and Freddie securities so they don’t become unmarketable after the launch…

The identity of the seller was not revealed in the offering circular except to say the company is “well capitalized.”

We know of at least one nonprime lender offering seconds and we expect that in time others may follow…

The analysis, the first of its kind, was based on new Inside Mortgage Finance surveys that drew results from a broad sample of banks and nonbanks of all size classifications.

Banks held about 18.6 percent of total ABS outstanding.

What’s the market potential for nonprime/non-QM lending? Maybe $100 billion a year…

Republicans running the House Financial Services Committee had enough votes, in spite of one defection, to push through a legislative markup this week a comprehensive overhaul of the Dodd-Frank Act that would eliminate the pending risk-retention requirements for ABS other than residential mortgages, among other provisions. The GOP’s preferred legislative vehicle is H.R. 5983, the Financial CHOICE (Creating Hope and Opportunity for Investors, Consumers and Entrepreneurs) Act, dropped in the legislative hopper a week ago by Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-TX, committee chairman. “Many post mortems of the financial crisis posit...