Freddie CEO Don Layton: "People tell me, ‘Well, let’s have a common AUS that everyone can use.’ My only data point on that is that to have a common system on the backend for the security (UMBS) took seven years and $2 billion to build…”

The year prior, Fannie CEO Daniel Mudd earned $11.6 million while Freddie's chief Richard Syron took home $18.3 million, but a large chunk of their pay included stock... 

Blackstone-related investors plan to unload 40 million shares of Invitation Homes stock...

The strongest MBS trading month of the year came in March at $269.9 billion...

Quicken: "Dan is awake, responsive and resting comfortably."