Some $7.29 billion of non-agency MBS was issued during the fourth quarter, down 41.5% on a sequential basis.

Loan application activity is typically slow in early January following the holidays. Not this year, according to officials at Wells and PCMA.

For all of 2020, non-agency MBS issuance totaled $90.23 billion, down 20.0% from the year before...

The facility allows for originations of jumbo mortgages along with conforming loans.

Corina Gonzalez, a senior vice president at DBRS, believes it will take time for the new standards to prompt changes in the origination equation.

According to figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance, SoFi sold roughly $1.9 billion of home mortgages to Fannie Mae in 2020, including $670 million in the fourth quarter alone.

The impairment rate didn't decline across the board. It increased for bank statement loans.

Officials at Acra suggest it's largely business as usual for Citadel, beyond the name change.

Kroll Bond Rating Service had a strong year over the first nine months of 2020, with a 12.4% increase in business from the same period in 2019...

Still, the overall share of ARMs is declining. The loans accounted for 7.5% of first-lien originations in the first nine months compared to 10.8% for full year 2019.