“To foster competition that serves consumers, the new strategic plan and scorecard aim to provide a level playing field for all market participants such that success depends on running a better business rather than special regulatory and statutory advantages,” the FHFA states.

A strong fourth-quarter finish could put 2019 in striking distance of the record $249.05 billion of CMBS issuance in 2017.

If banks meet the safe harbor requirements, the FDIC won’t reclaim assets from a non-agency MBS if a bank is subsequently placed in conservatorship or receivership.

The Freddie Mac single-family servicing market grew roughly three times as fast as the Fannie Mae market during the third quarter, according to a new Inside the GSEs analysis.

Mortgage industry groups largely support a proposal by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. that would ease disclosure requirements for privately-placed non-agency residential MBS.

JPMorgan Chase Bank and Flagstar Bank are separately issuing MBS backed by mortgages eligible for sale to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Across all LTV bands, the share of purchase loans with low FICO scores fell from 12.88% in the second quarter to 12.29% in the third.

The $638.2 million MBS follows a $788.9 million deal that Chase brought to market in August. Only a handful of MBS from other issuers this year have topped $400 million...

Co-issuance transfers – a smaller market – actually increased 52.9% sequentially to $59.4 billion…

In a report released Friday morning, Cowen Washington Research Group analyst Jaret Seiberg noted that banking regulators have been using consent decrees for years. “Such orders also tend to include conduct restrictions on the banks,” he said…