In aggregate, banks and thrifts earned $3.72 billion from mortgage banking activities during 2Q17…

The vast majority of Fannie buyback activity involves loans sold into MBS issued since 2015…

All asset classes in the ABS market saw reduced bank interest in the second quarter…

Mortgage brokers saw their market share top 11.0 percent in the second quarter, the highest reading in quite some time, Inside Mortgage Finance found…

Total bank investment in residential MBS rose by $36.28 billion during the second quarter…

Today, Fannie and Freddie hold $13.50 billion of subprime and Alt A MBS. At the end of 2005, they had a staggering $258.67 billion in such assets.

Roughly 71.0 percent of second-quarter primary-market originations of first-lien mortgages were purchase loans, the highest reading in years…

Most of the companies are in decent shape, but the group is weighed down by two big albatrosses – Ocwen Financial and Walter Investment…

The pronounced shift from refinance to purchase lending made for major changes in overall risk distribution during the second quarter.

Freddie Mac issued $2.11 billion of new Structured Agency Credit Risk notes, an impressive increase of 35.6 percent…