Arch Mortgage Insurance led the pack in terms of new insurance written in 3Q18 with $21.43 billion, followed by Radian Guaranty ($15.78 billion), and MGIC ($14.57 billion).

Ocwen Financial has not been a model of prosperity...

The dollar volume of low-score purchase loans increased by 29.8 percent from the second to the third quarter, while total GSE purchase business went up 23.6 percent.

Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie issued a combined $98.03 billion of single-family MBS last month, a 5.1 percent drop from September…

The grand concept behind the single security is that MBS issued by Fannie and Freddie will be fully fungible and interchangeable.

A few mainstream lenders are starting to take notice, but most of the action is at a handful of nonbanks that have spearheaded the sector’s rise…

United Shore Financial Services ran the top FHA wholesale-broker program, generating $1.53 billion during the third quarter.

The nonprime sector has split off from jumbo, and there are now roughly 70 investors in the sector.

Eric Kaplan of the Milken Institute: “I don’t think the non-agency market is ready to absorb the market that’s taken away from the GSEs without some significant signaling in advance.”

Meanwhile, the group of servicers ranked sixth through 25th had a combined increase of $119.9 billion from June 30…