Chase increased the agency MBS in its trading accounts by $11.20 billion during the second quarter, boosting its total to $86.52 billion.

GSE-related buybacks increased by 2.3% on a quarterly basis.

In the conventional-conforming sector, the securitization rate rose to 71.4% from 68.8% as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac churned out new MBS faster than the market was making new loans.

Fitch and DBRS weathered the sharp drop in rated non-agency MBS issuance better than their competitors.

Mortgage investors, lenders and borrowers could all benefit from ICE's acquisition of Black Knight, according to leaders at ICE.

Interest rates on mortgages hit a level last seen in 2000.

Freddie MBS represented 3.7% of the collateral backing Fannie Supers in the second quarter, the highest level of commingling since the GSEs imposed new fees on such activity a year ago.

Rithm Capital is preparing to issue a $669.9 million expanded-credit MBS.

Activity by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac involving shared equity loan programs has been limited to this point and the FHLBanks are currently prohibited from acquiring mortgages in shared equity programs.

In the second quarter, money-market and mutual funds upped their holdings of MBS by 10.9% to an estimated $814.18 billion.