If housing markets are stronger than expected and rates stay low enough, originations could hit $1.421 trillion next year.

Non-agency issuers produced $32.16 billion of new commercial MBS, a 40 percent increase from the second quarter.

Wells Fargo's origination market share keeps dropping, but is still more than double that of its closest competitor, JPMorgan Chase.

David Steckel of Bank of America said his institution has focused on capturing more of the customers who fit into the company’s credit box rather than making that box bigger.

It’s not clear whether the rest of the industry will push the third-quarter origination results higher.

Buyers of “bulk” Ginnie mortgage servicing rights will have to meet the test by January 2015.

In fact, nearly a fifth of the repurchases involved loans sold to the GSEs by Lehman Brothers or its related mortgage businesses.

Analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch are predicting a solid fourth quarter for jumbo MBS, enough to bring the total for 2014 up to about $8.0 billion when the year is over.

Back in 2004, credit unions accounted for just 3.2 percent of total mortgage originations. Not anymore.

Back in the first quarter of 2013, only 31.3 percent of Fannie/Freddie purchase mortgages had private mortgage insurance.