The former Nationwide CTO will manage the Common Securitization Platform.

Fannie and Freddie continued to grow their market share of 1-4 family originations, MBS issuance and mortgage servicing. (Includes two data charts.)

Investors will be able to elect a real estate mortgage investment option for Fannie’s multifamily MBS beginning Jan. 1.

The deemed-issuance ratio satisfies IRS guidelines for determining the amounts of Fannie and Freddie product contained in UMBS.

Fannie and Freddie combined to issue $266 billion of single-family MBS in October, the third monthly production record set this year. Many top sellers shifted a little more of their GSE business to Freddie. (Includes two data charts.)

Could investors sink their money into the GSEs only to have Congress convert them into public utilities and closely supervise their g-fees?

Fannie released a table listing 1,221 pools that were impacted by a servicer reporting error.

Freddie issued $6.4 billion of CRT in 3Q on $167.3 billion of single-family mortgages.

Both enterprises continue to structure deals.

Industry stakeholders said FHFA should find tremendous value in the CRT program as it reduces systemic risk by distributing risk across many investors and transactions.