Fannie and Freddie have yet to release a date for their fourth-quarter results, but 4Q was likely a tad shy of 3Q. Credit stable interest rates and decent MBS volumes.

It wasn’t a pretty month for MBS trades. And with interest rates rising, the age-old question looms: Where do we go from here?

The best performer, in terms of sequential growth was JPMorgan Chase, up 4.6%.

Still a go: The Mortgage Bankers Association’s IMB conference, scheduled to start Jan. 24 in Nashville.

Early reporters of fourth-quarter results are giving the mortgage industry a glimpse of what’s to come for everyone else: weak or negative origination growth. Message: The party can’t last forever.

Hunting for new sources of revenue, several regional banks are planning to offer credit lines to nonbank mortgage shops. The collateral: MSRs.

Better.com hired a former federal prosecutor from the Southern District of New York to conduct the "culture" review...

One ominous sign for both USB and the overall industry is the bank’s mortgage application reading...

Rice Park said it wants to “build a large scale and durable MSR investing business.”

The weighted average coupon of Truist's MSR portfolio: 3.44%...