The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau also is reviewing LPMI, but from a different angle: RESPA and the "discounting" of such policies…

Fitch raised its ABS rating share from 55.0 percent for all of 2014 to about the same level it had back in 2013.

But don’t count out depositories quite yet: Banks and thrifts still play the biggest role in the top 100, even if it’s shrinking.

From the beginning of 2014 through the end of 1Q15, roughly 16 percent of the loans securitized by Fannie and Freddie had DTI ratios exceeding 43 percent...

Sometimes lost in the hoopla over the rising nonbank share of mortgage servicing is that banks have fallen in and out of love with the servicing market for decades.

A relatively small – even microscopic – percentage of loans securitized by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the past three years have been subject to a repurchase demand, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis.

The outstanding supply of single-family MBS declined 0.7 percent during the first quarter of 2015, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS market analysis. But that didn’t stop commercial banks from continuing to increase their holdings.

Wells Fargo was the top conforming-jumbo lender in the first quarter of 2015, with $3.10 billion in such originations.

Fannie’s repurchase volume fell 45.8 percent from the previous quarter while Freddie’s was down just 1.3 percent.

The slowdown in securitization is partly due to the lag between origination and MBS issuance, but there are other factors not related to timing...