As a group, the 45 companies that ranked sixth through 50th had a combined portfolio of $1.668 trillion, equal to 37.5 percent of the market.

Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie continue to dominate in multifamily mortgage securitization, capturing a combined 93.6 percent of the market in the first quarter.

Quicken Loans, for example, reported a 4.9 percent increase in total originations compared to 4Q15. An estimated 81.0 percent of the nonbank’s production in 2015 was refinance loans…

Roughly $41.42 billion of non-mortgage ABS were issued in the first quarter, up 35.8 percent from the unusually low volume at the end of 2015.

Nonbanks serviced $2.085 trillion of agency MBS at the end of March, a 2.9 percent increase from the fourth quarter.

Wells Fargo was the top seller to the GSEs in the first quarter with $22.75 billion, followed by Quicken Loans ($11.33 billion) and JPMorgan Chase ($6.87 billion).

The gains in retail and broker share came at the expense of the correspondent channel, where total GSE sales fell 7.4 percent from the fourth quarter…

Some 59.6 percent of new issuance in the first quarter consisted of re-securitizations and deals backed by seasoned re-performing and nonperforming loans...

Private mortgage insurance firms adjusted their pricing in early 2016…

Early 2016 was the slowest market in a year for Ginnie MBS production...