A company affiliated with MBS co-inventor Lewis Ranieri is moving closer to issuing a security backed by "prime-quality" non-agency loans.

Freddie Mac has been profitable for six quarters but needs to show positive earnings for six more before it can recapture its deferred tax asset.

A $750 million offering of nonperforming mortgages is expected to go down this week. Meanwhile, NAFCU is mad at FHFA over the QM rule.

Roughly 75 percent of bank loan officers cited put-back risk by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as an important factor limiting their current ability or willingness to approve home-purchase loans.

Besides entering the servicing arena, Two Harbors Investment Corp. is building an originator network to issue non-agency jumbo mortgage-backed securities on its own.

Two Ohio pension funds that owned stock in Fannie Mae sued the GSE in 2004 related to a $6.3 billion overstatement of earnings.

The GSE "common securitization platform" is under construction and already potential add-ons are being discussed, including a loan acquisition module.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency plans to survey residential borrowers about how they were treated by lenders.

Nationstar Mortgage is getting serious about the origination business. On Tuesday it revealed plans to purchase a high-volume call center operation.

The market for securities backed by servicer advances is red hot, but S&P says investors face risks.