Fun Fact: The expanded-credit MBS sector posted a hefty 130.3% jump in new issuance during 2019…

Last but not least: U.S. Bank, which funded $17.5 billion, a 10.8% improvement from the third quarter.

Private MIs insured $60.97 billion of refinance loans delivered to Fannie and Freddie in 2019, more than triple their total for the prior year.

Some $4.47 billion of single-family rental securities were issued in 2019, a 35% drop from the previous year…

First Guaranty Mortgage Corp., which is owned by PIMCO, has its eye on non-QM lending of $1.0 billion…

The company also disclosed home equity production of $3.0 billion during the period compared to $2.5 billion in the third quarter.

Fun fact: Expanded-credit MBS accounted for 66.6% of non-agency issuance in 2019, compared with 43.7% in the previous year.

Citi's retail mortgage originations increased by nearly 80% in 2019 while First Republic's production was up by more than 50%.

According to figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance, all home lenders produced $700.0 billion of product in the third quarter. If the rest of the industry’s results emulate the numbers reported by Wells and JPM, it’s entirely possible that 4Q may have been better than many analysts predicted.

The IPO of nonprime lender Velocity Financial could price later this week or next…