Stronger GSE earnings will bolster retained capital, which could juice the recap-and-release debate even more…

According to one document we saw, Velocity has a post-IPO valuation ranging from $266 million to $304 million.

However, agency MBS was the star of the structured finance show in 2019…

Meanwhile, when it comes to the top seller/issuers, Quicken Loans was not too far behind market leader Wells Fargo: $126.9 billion to the megabank’s $132.4 billion…

The $278.5 million expanded-credit MBS from New Residential Investment Corp. is somewhat smaller than any of the five deals the firm issued in 2019.

Sprout was launched last decade by nonprime veteran Michael Strauss...

New MBS production was up 32.0% from 2018 as an unexpected wave of refinancing business continued to pour into the secondary market.

The dollar volume of purchase-loan deliveries declined across all nine risk categories, with the biggest drop taking place in the highest-risk bucket.

However, two asset categories – business loans and consumer loans – saw substantially higher production in the fourth quarter...