Demand in the secondary market for non-qualified mortgages is helping to fuel originations of the loans. Delinquencies in the sector have ticked up but aren’t yet a major concern.

With an eye toward attracting more mature ESG investors from Europe, Fannie and Freddie updated their Mission Index scoring.

Would a second Trump administration be more likely to take the GSEs out from under the government’s thumb? It didn’t work the first time around, but Biden hasn’t been interested at all.

Economists pick through the mortgage data to try to understand when things will get better for the industry.

The top FHLBank borrower remains JPMorgan Chase with $39.22 billion in outstanding advances at the end of the first quarter.

Brent Giese, executive director for fixed income at Daiwa Capital Markets, said the new margin requirements will put additional financial stress on mortgage lenders.

Debt service coverage ratio mortgages qualify borrowers based on rental income rather than the traditional debt-to-income ratio metric used by the GSEs.

The CFPB is considering rulemaking or guidance aimed at improving competition, choice and affordability.

Ginnie will begin mixing eNotes and paper notes within the same pools.

The AU systems embedded in Fannie’s Desktop Underwriter and Freddie's Loan Product Advisor could be impacted...