MFA Financial's net income in the fourth quarter increased 12.9% from the quarter prior.

Union Home Mortgage hired a national vice president of mergers and acquisitions.

The Fed will soon issue a proposal to loosen capital requirements for bank holdings of mortgage servicing rights and a proposal loosening capital requirements for mortgages held in portfolio by banks.

The increase in issuance occurred across several categories, including a 79.2% surge in volume tied to loans eligible for sale to the government-sponsored enterprises.

David Spector, CEO of Pennymac Financial Services, said the firm’s correspondent aggregation platform is facing increasing competition from the GSEs’ cash window.

No customers of TransUnion have shifted to the direct license program FICO launched in October.

The correspondent channel lost 194 basis points of market share in the agency MBS market in the fourth quarter of 2025.

Rep. French Hill, R-AR, the chair of the House Financial Services Committee, was critical of initiatives by Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Redwood Trust posted a net income of $20.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2025.

The refi share of GSE business saw its first monthly decline since July, slipping from 37.9% in December to 37.4% in January.