Loan brokers were slightly more purchase-focused than retail lenders...

Four of the top five ABS issuers in 2015 were closely linked to the auto industry, including the most productive issuer in the market, Ford Motor Credit.

The Ginnie Mae market was the most active of the three, with an estimated $112.6 billion in MSR sales through the first 11 months of 2015.

Also, the agency servicing market has continued to become less top-heavy.

Prime jumbo MBS issuance rebounded from a soft 2014 with $12.08 billion in issuance, a 25.4 percent gain.

However, for all of 2015, private MI volume in Fannie/Freddie MBS was up 25.2 percent from 2014...

Quicken Loans, ranked second overall in GSE loan deliveries last year, growing its business by 32.2 percent…

While nonbank residential lenders lean a little more on TPO channels, banks are still the driving force in the correspondent market…

Residential lenders issued a record $435.8 billion of Ginnie Mae securities in 2015, according to Inside MBS & ABS, a handsome 47 percent increase from the prior year.

Freddie managed a bigger annual increase over 2014 levels than Fannie did, thanks in part to its more active program in securitizing seasoned loans.