Only two depositories – HomeStreet Bank and Citigroup – reported a net loss on mortgage banking.

According to an Inside MBS & ABS analysis, the average credit score for GSE business in the first quarter was 745.1…

Purchase loans accounted for 57.9 percent of April issuance for all three agencies, the highest penetration since September 2015…

FHFA Special Advisor Bob Ryan noted: “I’m encouraged by the attention to this…”

In no time at all, New Residential has become the nation’s sixth largest owner of residential servicing contracts.

The number of FHA loans 30-60 days past due declined by 28.4 percent, lowering the delinquency rate by 1.51 percentage points…

First-time issuers and those that didn’t issue in the fourth quarter accounted for 56.1 percent of 1Q17 ABS production.

MUFG Union Bank of California, which relies heavily on jumbos, saw loan production fall on a sequential basis by just 4.4 percent, the best showing among the top 50, Inside Mortgage Finance found.

Roughly $12.50 billion of agency mortgages securitized during the first quarter with some form of primary MI were tied to Golden State properties.

Nonbank mortgage firms increased their servicing portfolios by 3.0 percent during 1Q17, more than double the 1.3 percent increase in total Fannie/Freddie servicing during that period.