The biggest gain in the government market was in VA loans, where quarterly volume was up 23.5%...

An open question mark, the proposed Genworth-Oceanwide merger was first announced in 2016...

Ginnie Mae said it is concerned that issuers could abuse buyouts and "undermine the integrity of the MBS program."

Timing is everything. The majority of the loans, 63.0%, went into forbearance status in April and many of these borrowers may have already made their May payment.

The stock sale comes at an interesting time for the mortgage industry in general and MIs in particular...

A year ago, IRRRL activity totaled just $1.99 billion. In the first three months of 2020, it rocketed to $42.01 billion.

Arch MI: “The loss ratio for the 2020 first quarter reflected 12.0 points of losses which resulted from financial stress due to the COVID-19 global pandemic."

Private MI business depends heavily on purchase-mortgage activity, and that’s where Fannie and Freddie saw the biggest decline...

Mortgage guarantors and regulators are keenly aware of the financial disaster that could be in the making. Conference of State Bank Supervisors President John Ryan sent a letter to Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin encouraging the creation of a liquidity facility to support residential servicers.

Wells Fargo was the Big Kahuna of purchase lending in 2019 while Quicken Loans was the refi king, Inside Mortgage Finance found…