Banks and thrifts serviced $3.023 trillion of mortgages for other investors as of the end of September.

Joshua Rosner, managing director at Graham Fisher, a consulting firm, suggested that calls for an explicit government guarantee for GSE MBS are absurd.

A bill with bipartisan support to ban trigger leads tied to mortgage applications was removed from a defense spending package.

JPMorgan Chase, the system’s biggest member, reduced its FHLBank advances by 20.3% over the past year.

Fitch assigned a B rating to the planned $400 million senior unsecured debt issuance from Planet Financial Group.

“For MBA, the most critical issue to address before releasing the GSEs is the establishment of an explicit federal backstop for mortgage-backed securities,” according to Bob Broeksmit, president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association.

It's the first securitization of closed-end second liens from the affiliate of Ellington Management Group.

FHA’s new cyber incident reporting requirements align with those of the federal banking regulators.

The largest bank holder of agency MBS at Sept. 30? That would be Bank of America at $422.1 billion.

“This program will facilitate much-needed liquidity for issuers while improving the stability of the government-backed reverse mortgage market,” said Sam Valverde, Ginnie’s acting president.