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.

IMT also found that in 3Q, seven of the top 15 sellers to Fannie and Freddie were nonbanks.

Among our findings, a few things stand out, including the ascension of PennyMac to the number two position among Ginnie Mae issuers.

The GSEs securitized $100.30 billion of purchase mortgages during the third quarter, a 28.3 percent sequential gain.