All three mortgage production channels saw solid gains in originations from the first quarter to the second quarter of 2015, but correspondents had the best of it.

DBRS was the most active rating service in the non-agency mortgage-backed security market halfway through 2015.

A big part of Freddie’s sharp increase in issuance came from the $8.00 billion of seasoned loans the company securitized in July.

Although all 13 firms reported positive earnings on their origination and sales activity, many noted that production-related revenue did not keep pace...

It was the group’s lowest MBS portfolio valuation since the fourth quarter of 2011.

The sharp increase in purchase-mortgage lending during 2Q helped float the private MI boat higher.

Some lenders, such as PennyMac, have promoted the no-downpayment feature in their media advertisements.

In the second quarter of 2015, 66.4 percent of loans sold to the GSEs had credit scores of 740 or higher.

Over the winter, the VA program had quietly become a much more significant factor in the government-insured market...

The last time Ginnie Mae was the top agency issuer was in January of 2009...