It was the heaviest quarterly issuance volume since the July-September cycle in 2017.

FHFA Director Mark Calabria on Bob Ryan: “Bob’s advice and counsel during my transition have been invaluable. I greatly appreciate his service at FHFA during the past five years and his role in helping ensure liquidity and funding for the nation’s housing finance system...”

If Live Well’s name sounds familiar, it should. In an SEC filing late this spring, Flagstar said it was owed $75 million by the company…

How do you get out of a debt bubble? Answer: Raise taxes and cut spending, something U.S. politicians have been loath to do. Or you could print more money...

As we’ve noted before, Calabria is building a dream team of industry vets and policy experts, whose chief task likely will entail working with the Treasury Department on administrative reform…

FHA's Keith Becker: “The industry and most of our lender partners are leveraging this technology now, and we have to find a way to do that as well so we can stay current with the industry’s direction..."

According to HUD’s policy handbook, a non-permanent resident alien is eligible for FHA financing if the property will be the borrower’s principal residence…

H.R. 299 eliminates the cap on VA home loans, which means that qualified homebuyers can now borrow above the agency’s standard loan limit of $484,350 for most counties in 2019 with no downpayment requirements.

Annaly and Barclays also like the idea of replacing Fannie and Freddie with several smaller MBS guarantors. At March 31, Annaly owned roughly $103 billion worth of agency mortgage-backed securities...

In May of this year Blankenstein resigned from the CFPB, where he served as associate policy director overseeing supervision, enforcement and fair lending. His past writings came to light in the fall of 2018.