Tag Archives: Securities

The Federal Reserve decided once again to delay a rate hike, and industry experts give their thoughts on why, and what we might expect moving forward.

Freddie Mac has made an important step toward its Single Security Initiative. Here's what the GSE has planned.

Here’s how private-label residential mortgage-backed securities issuance is likely to perform in 2019 and the impact that higher rates are likely to have for mortgage loan originators in this space.

The ratings agency has the first reverse mortgage-backed securities issued by Wells Fargo with provisional ratings. Here are the details.

While overall outstanding mortgage-backed securities at Ginnie Mae increased in July, its data indicated a decline in the issuance of single-family MBS from last year. Here’s a break down of MBS’ performance across various loans.

Mortgage origination profitability fell to its lowest in January 2018 as mortgage volumes responded to the rising interest rates during the month according to data in the February ...

A new report indicates this amount is higher than precrisis levels, but less compared to the current level of over $4 trillion.

The plans are ambitious. According to FHFA’s update report on Release 2, the agency has two main objectives in undertaking the UMBS initiative. The first is to establish a single, liquid market for the mortgage-backed securities issued by both GSEs that are backed by fixed-rate loans. The second is to maintain the liquidity of the that market over time.