Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Guggenheim Securities were the top underwriters of business ABS at the three-quarter mark of 2017…

The four megabanks reduced their agency mortgage servicing rights by $59.6 billion during the third quarter…

Ginnie Mae issuers securitized $85.4 billion of purchase loans in the third quarter, falling just short of the record $85.4 billion set in the third quarter of last year.

The bright spot was the prime jumbo MBS market where some $2.97 billion of new bonds were issued during the third quarter…

Fannie and Freddie saw a 26.7 percent jump in insured first-timer loans…

The flow of home loans for first-time buyers was up a robust 24.7 percent on a sequential basis…

The GSEs and Ginnie Mae remain the dominant forces in the MBS/ABS market. Their combined single-family issuance hit $346.98 billion in 3Q17…

Roughly 25.6 percent of applications from blacks were denied last year, compared to 15.4 percent for whites.

Purchase-mortgage activity in the GSE market surged 21.5 percent higher in the third quarter – and Fannie recorded a whopping 35.9 percent jump in such business…

S&P rated $69.54 billion of ABS issued in the first half of the year, roughly 60.1 percent of total issuance by dollar volume.