In the Treasury blueprint, the Trump administration clearly states its position: “Congress should consider permitting additional classes of mortgage lenders to become FHLBank members.”

JMP Securities has a “market perform” rating on Impac Mortgage, the publicly traded nonbank that’s trying to carve out a space for itself in the non-QM sector but can’t resist the temptation of reaching for GSE refis...

In their petition for a writ of certiorari, the shareholders said the Fifth Circuit afforded them no relief from their injuries and the “petitioners are thus not ‘prevailing parties’ in any meaningful sense.”

The biggest growth in the agency mortgage market during the third quarter of 2019 came from increases in refinance lending…

Former Freddie CEO Don Layton took issue with the plan’s basic premise that if the footprint of the GSEs shrinks, private capital will move in to take up the slack...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a political issue in the 2020 election? Not by a long shot...

Although origination volumes appear to be strong these days, some mortgage executives are already worrying about what might happen next year...

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods: "We continue to believe that GSE recapitalization is unlikely to be completed within the current presidential term.”

The FHFA announcement comes as financial institutions and regulators struggle to identify a suitable replacement index for LIBOR. 

The hike in the retained earnings threshold was widely anticipated and the news hardly budged the share price of Fannie/Freddie common.