In percentage terms, the sharpest downturn was in home-equity ABS, although this sector represented just 1.6 percent of bank ABS investment and there has been no new production in years.

Stearns Lending was the top table funder in 3Q15 with $2.95 billion originated through loan brokers. United Wholesale Mortgage was an extremely close second at $2.94 billion.

Despite changes to GSE to representations-and-warranties policies, lenders are still avoiding the riskiest segments of the market.

Unless mortgage-banking income takes another steep downturn in the fourth quarter, 2015 will likely prove more profitable than 2014 by a slim margin.

Bank of America grew its MBS holdings by a stunning 22.7 percent in the third quarter, according to Inside MBS & ABS.

An estimated 32.5 percent freefall in refi originations during 3Q had a much bigger impact on the conventional market than on government-insured lending.

The third-quarter figure was the largest new insurance written total for the industry since 1Q 2008, when private MIs booked $72.17 billion of new coverage.

Fannie and Freddie passed through of $661 million of g-fee money in the third quarter, up 4.6 percent from 2Q...

Wells Fargo once again ranked first among all GSE sellers with a market share of 15.3 percent in October, almost triple that of the number two ranked Quicken Loans.

Meanwhile, regional banks appeared to weather the quarter better than other sectors of the mortgage industry…