Last year, loan production turned out better than many anticipated...

Through the first half of 2015, banks and thrifts sold $364.35 billion of home loans, up 37.8 percent from the same period last year.

With mortgage debt outstanding climbing by 0.4 percent during 2Q, the share of securitized loans fell to 64 percent at June 30, the lowest level since 2012.

Feeding the MSR growth: credit unions, which increased their holdings of un-securitized home mortgages by 8.2 percent over that period...

One standout: FHA, where jumbo production soared in the second quarter, more than doubling to $6.8 billion.

Back in the early years after the financial crisis, Fannie and Freddie accounted for 60.0 percent or more of primary-market originations...

Bank of America still leads the industry in buybacks with $539 million on a year-to-date basis, or 28.5 percent of the total for all banks.

Fannie Mae had a slight increase in HARP activity and accounted for 59.3 percent of the total for the two GSEs...

Two companies – Wells Fargo and Bank of America – accounted for virtually all of the decline in bank MSR holdings during the second quarter.

SIFMA argues that the FHFA has to take a more active role in keeping GSE programs aligned so that differences in prepayment speeds do not emerge.