The Ginnie Mae portion is $130 billion: Forbearance requests on 5.89% of $2.2 trillion worth of FHA/VA loans that back GNMA MBS.

In a nutshell, depository institutions managed to increase their sales of refinance loans sequentially while IMBs saw a drop...

FHA forbearance is expected to swell in the weeks and months ahead...

Among the top five agency MBS issuers in the first quarter, three were nonbanks: Quicken, PennyMac and UWM, according to exclusive figures from Inside Mortgage Finance...

MBA said its survey covers 22.4 million loans serviced…

Refi volume was clearly gaining speed in March. On a combined basis, deliveries of FHA and VA refi loans grew 8.4% from February…

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae produced $478.64 billion of new single-family MBS in the first quarter of 2020, a 5.6% drop from 4Q19...

Private MI business depends heavily on purchase-mortgage activity, and that’s where Fannie and Freddie saw the biggest decline...

Ditech Financial, the nation’s 10th largest subservicer last time around, disappeared from the ranking because a large chunk of the company’s business, including subservicing assignments, was sold to New Residential Investment Corp.

As New Jersey loan broker Brian Benjamin put it, “Most lenders I see now want a paystub within 30 days of closing and a verbal VOE [verification of employment] within five days of closing.”