Private MI business depends heavily on purchase-mortgage activity, and that’s where Fannie and Freddie saw the biggest decline...

Mortgage guarantors and regulators are keenly aware of the financial disaster that could be in the making. Conference of State Bank Supervisors President John Ryan sent a letter to Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin encouraging the creation of a liquidity facility to support residential servicers.

Wells Fargo was the Big Kahuna of purchase lending in 2019 while Quicken Loans was the refi king, Inside Mortgage Finance found…

Private MI business fell off 7.6% from the third to the fourth quarter, however, a period when FHA and VA activity continued to climb.

A handful of GSE-eligible mortgages in Goldman's deal have loan-to-value ratios greater than 80% and private mortgage insurance, which is uncommon for loans in non-agency MBS.

Originally, there were 14 nonbank issuers that Ginnie was talking to but one was acquired by a competitor.

Radian bought Clayton in 2014, paying a hefty $305 million for the business, a price that many observers thought was a bit rich.

No other mortgage stocks came close but there were strong valuation gains from PennyMac Financial Services, up 60% for the year, and in the mortgage insurance sector.

Private MIs insured $60.97 billion of refinance loans delivered to Fannie and Freddie in 2019, more than triple their total for the prior year.