To be sure, individual lenders were all over the map in their reported production trends. A handful of top producers reported significant increases from the third quarter, including loanDepot, which was up 13.4 percent…

Meanwhile, the supply of Ginnie single-family MBS outstanding continued to set new records…

Santander Consumer USA was the most active issuer of vehicle ABS…

One issue is the tax treatment of compensation that MBS investors receive for converting legacy Freddie participation certificates…

Nonbank servicers have a particularly big footprint in the Ginnie market, accounting for 53.6 percent of servicing outstanding at Dec. 31…

Although heavy refinancing activity accounted for the fourth-quarter uptick in MBS issuance, 2016 was also a strong purchase-mortgage market…

United Shore Financial Services was the top seller of broker loans by a wide margin, with $5.83 billion in fourth-quarter activity, more than twice its nearest competitor…

The GSE figures suggest that private MIs saw a measurable drop in new insurance written in the final three months of 2016, but ended the year with a significant increase in volume compared to 2015.

Oddly enough, the nonprime space showed some signs of life last year and hopes are high for 2017 as well…

FHA collateral still accounted for over half of Ginnie issuance, but the 2016 total was up a more subdued 8.2 percent from the previous year…