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.”

The new “flexibilities” cover both originations and appraisals. On the origination front, Fannie and Freddie will reduce the acceptable age of income documentation on most loans to 60 days from 120...

PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust is one of just a handful of companies invested in what Fannie calls front-end CRT…

Those top GSE volume states also accounted for $1.776 trillion of GSE single-family loans outstanding at the end of last year, 37.4% of the total market.

Calabria’s remarks were part of a broader outline summarizing the impact the crisis has had on mortgage markets and the actions the FHFA has taken in response.

In the stock market, we trust. Right? Meanwhile: Ocwen to the rescue? (Too bad Ditech didn't survive.)

Those 21 states accounted for $919.3 billion of single-family business funneled through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae into mortgage-backed securities issued in 2019.