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

In an industry update, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods predicts it may still take some time before the establishment of an emergency funding facility for residential servicers with MBS payments coming due.

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...

FHFA's stance has mortgage bankers perplexed, to say the least...

MBA said its survey covers 22.4 million loans serviced…

The $13 million Milbank contract, which follows the agency’s February selection of Houlihan Lokey as its capital markets advisor, suggests the FHFA remains committed to recap-and-release.

Apparently, it’s not Ginnie Mae MBS payments that are keeping the 15 up at night, but remittances on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac single and multifamily securities. Private-label products also pose a concern.

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...

FHFA Director Mark Calabria: “The lenders I’m talking to have said that 75% to 80% of their calls are from people who are not yet facing hardship. They just want to know what their options are.”