The Securities and Exchange Commission wants to know whether there are regulatory impediments contributing to the lack of public non-agency MBS offerings.

Issuance of commercial MBS and non-mortgage ABS increased at a faster pace during the third quarter than issuance of residential MBS.

Equifax is taking actions to increase adoption of VantageScore 4.0.

Kashkari cited data centers as an investment that appears to be offering stronger returns to investors rather than building homes or apartment buildings.

dv01 said caution is warranted in interpreting the rise in the impairment rate as August ended on a Sunday.

VA refi volume was down 31.5% from the second quarter, while FHA refi volume slipped 10.3%.

Greg Sher, a managing director at NFM Lending, warned about potential parallels between the expanded-credit market and the non-agency market in the runup to the crash of 2008.

By eliminating its bank holding company, Flagstar Bank will drop the Federal Reserve as a regulator.

The top prime jumbo and expanded-credit issuer so far this year: JPMorgan Chase.

FHA and VA mortgages tend to have sharply different prepayment rates but they're put together in Ginnie MBS, potentially penalizing FHA borrowers.