The rise in retail market share likely reflects the fact that smaller lenders, which are more likely to do retail lending exclusively, account for a growing share of GSE business.

Wells Fargo was the top seller to Freddie Mac in 2Q with $12.6 billion, according to newly compiled figures from Inside Mortgage Finance, but BofA was a somewhat close second...

However, refinance loans continued to account for the lion’s share of GSE business, Inside Mortgage Finance found.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau also is reviewing LPMI, but from a different angle: RESPA and the "discounting" of such policies…

Fitch raised its ABS rating share from 55.0 percent for all of 2014 to about the same level it had back in 2013.

But don’t count out depositories quite yet: Banks and thrifts still play the biggest role in the top 100, even if it’s shrinking.

From the beginning of 2014 through the end of 1Q15, roughly 16 percent of the loans securitized by Fannie and Freddie had DTI ratios exceeding 43 percent...

Sometimes lost in the hoopla over the rising nonbank share of mortgage servicing is that banks have fallen in and out of love with the servicing market for decades.

A relatively small – even microscopic – percentage of loans securitized by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the past three years have been subject to a repurchase demand, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis.

The outstanding supply of single-family MBS declined 0.7 percent during the first quarter of 2015, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS market analysis. But that didn’t stop commercial banks from continuing to increase their holdings.