Ginnie’s big advantage is that it gets all the FHA and VA loans, while the GSEs so far have not gotten much traction in their reduced-downpayment programs.

Almost 60 percent of the repurchases made in the first half of 2015 involved loans that were securitized by the GSEs in 2013 and 2014.

Fun fact: it was the highest mortgage-related income posted by the banking industry since the second quarter of 2013.

Commercial banks and savings institutions kept increasing their stake in agency mortgage-backed securities during the second quarter of 2015, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS ranking and analysis.

All three mortgage production channels saw solid gains in originations from the first quarter to the second quarter of 2015, but correspondents had the best of it.

DBRS was the most active rating service in the non-agency mortgage-backed security market halfway through 2015.

A big part of Freddie’s sharp increase in issuance came from the $8.00 billion of seasoned loans the company securitized in July.

Although all 13 firms reported positive earnings on their origination and sales activity, many noted that production-related revenue did not keep pace...

It was the group’s lowest MBS portfolio valuation since the fourth quarter of 2011.

The sharp increase in purchase-mortgage lending during 2Q helped float the private MI boat higher.