HomeStreet will reduce its mortgage banking staff by 60 full-time equivalent employees...

LoanDepot more than doubled its ARM originations in that span, and large increases were also seen at Wells Fargo, Bank of America Home Loans, First Republic Bank and MUFG…

The MBS is backed by 3,548 mortgages that have seasoned for more than 11 years, on average.

“Expectations have had to be reset post-election,” said Ryan Schoen, a senior financial services analyst at Washington Analysis.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency assigned AAA ratings to the deal.

The Mortgage Bankers Association is projecting that more than 4,600 residential finance professionals will attend its annual convention in Denver next month.

Some investors, such as Charles Schwab Bank, are having trouble finding bonds to buy…

Matt Nichols, CEO of Deephaven Mortgage, a company that has issued nonprime MBS in recent years, said the main impediment to nonprime MBS is supply.

Another refi spurt in the works? It may’ve looked that way a few weeks ago, but...

“Liquidity is strong across the spectrum and probably the best we’ve ever seen for structured products,” said Scott Levy, a senior managing director at Guggenheim Securities…