Banks, thrifts and credit unions accounted for 50.5 percent of first-lien mortgage production by the top 100 lenders in the first quarter, according to survey figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance…

Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-ID, listed maintaining the TBA market and the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage among his important principles for reform…

The lag effect was particularly noticeable in the conventional-conforming market…

Bank of America continued to dominate second lien lending with $4.05 billion of originations during the first quarter of 2017…

Not all depositories are retreating from the MSR market. The credit union industry reported a combined $197.6 billion in mortgage servicing for others at March 31, up 1.5 percent…

Counterparty risk appears to be on the mind of the FHFA…

There will likely be more buyback demands on the 2015 book of business in the future, but the total may not ever get to even 0.1 percent of issuance.

It’s Ginnie Mae by a nose: $1.704 trillion in MBS to Freddie Mac’s $1.703 trillion…

Treasury said one problem with the current risk-retention rule is that it’s promulgated jointly by six different federal regulators.

Fun fact: Ginnie Mae servicing now represents 16.5 percent of all residential debt outstanding – more than triple the program’s market share at the end of 2008.