We don’t know who will lead the new administration, though for Ginnie’s sake, it’s likely that both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton won’t mess with the agency or its charter. Right?

In the private MI segment, the biggest gain in percentage terms was in refinance loans…

At June 30, JPM held $175.8 billion of residential whole loans in portfolio, a gain of $7.06 billion over the reading at March 31.

Critics accused Castro of politicking at the expense of private investors. In the past, Castro has been mentioned as a possible vice presidential candidate for Hillary Clinton.

Moody’s said third-party due diligence was completed on 30.0 percent of the mortgages…

Stonegate, like many publicly traded nonbank mortgage firms, has seen its share price suffer the past year because of declining interest rates that have forced large MSR writedowns...

The GOP convention starts in a few days and the party of Lincoln and Roosevelt (Teddy) has its daggers pointed toward Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Bully!

The J.G. Wentworth Company is in the process of being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange, sparking rumors that its mortgage subsidiary – a $1.5 billion-a-year originator – might find itself on the auction block. For now, the parent company is putting a good face on the delisting and said its mortgage division, J.G. Wentworth Home Lending, had a strong first quarter. A spokeswoman for the parent did not address a possible sale of the lender in an email exchange with Inside Mortgage Finance. In the first quarter of 2016, J.G. Wentworth lost...

One mortgage insurance lobbyist added: “Fannie and Freddie really don’t want to cut fees. It would hurt their earnings. It’s hard to imagine them doing anything right now that would reduce revenues.”

The pending deal from Chase will include 4,122 mortgages, according to a due diligence review by Opus Capital Markets Consultants…