Currently, Fannie and Freddie are allowed to maintain a maximum capital cushion of $3 billion each. Anything above that amount is swept into the U.S. Treasury. …

New Rez’s MSR haul: $50.9 billion of agency product...

The three most active sellers of bulk MSRs: Stearns Lending, United Wholesale Mortgage and loanDepot, according to exclusive figures from Inside Mortgage Trends…

The consulting firm, echoing what many in the industry believe, said if housing finance reform were easy “it would have happened long ago.”

Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman should be a happy man these days. His investment in Fannie and Freddie is now in the black...

In mid-January, in a speech to FHFA staffers, Otting vowed to make administrative changes to the GSEs but offered no time table or details...

The spokeswoman stressed that Otting did not mention Congressional approval, a timeline or "discuss any details of the plan.”

Will the Moelis plan be the one?

Joe Pigg of the American Bankers Association is among those expressing concern about the high DTIs of loans under the GSE patch…