Finance

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can be repaired and made to repay the U.S. Treasury for costs of their bailouts, according to Joshua Rosner.

Freddie Mac has priced its new 0.50% three-year Reference Notes security due on May 13, 2016 at 99.994 to yield 0.502%.

Rating actions taken by Moody's Investors Service on tranches issued by RASC in 2005 and valued at $1 billion in vintage loans indicate overall improvement in performance.

An executive believes agency real estate investment trusts are proving to be an appropriate vehicle for returning private capital to the mortgage market.

Assumable loans are offered by the Federal Housing Administration and can be a difference maker for your business.

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia president Charles Plosser said the central bank should slow the pace of quantitative easing.

Fitch has issued a presale report on a $1.8 billion securities deal backed by mortgages secured by interests of borrowers that own or lease 5,195 wireless communication sites.

Mark Cohen, with volume of $503 million has moved into the top spot with just days left to report production volume.

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed will propose a plan of finance for the Atlanta Falcons new National Football League stadium in the next two weeks.

The Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority approved a payment to the city of Mesa to fund renovations of Hohokam Stadium as the spring training home of the Oakland Athletics baseball team.

The chief executive of U.S. Bancorp told attendees at an investor conference in Boston on Tuesday not to expect anything but organic growth from the company over the next decade.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency has assigned preliminary ratings to MSC 2013-ALTM, a $160 million large loan commercial mortgage-backed securities deal.

Predicting exactly what the world will look like 11 years after the Dodd-Frank Act was signed into law is a stretch, but history shows that congressional updates to the regulatory structure are cyclical and occur roughly once a decade.

Executives from equity real estate investment trust American Realty Capital Properties rang the closing bell at the National Association of Securities Dealer Automated Quotation system’s headquarters, signaling the closing of the trading day on March 1, 2013.

The GSE regulator has tasked Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with building a new securitization platform that could one day serve as a public utility for the issuance of MBS.

MFA Financial, a real estate investment trust, will delay its 2012 annual report filing.

Last year Union First completed two separate share repurchases, retiring 970,000 shares, or about 3.5% of the total outstanding.

New Penn Financial has lowered pricing and expanded guidelines on a jumbo portfolio product offered through both third-party and direct-loan channels.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas and Los Alamos National Bank have awarded an Affordable Housing Program grant to YES Housing Inc.

Mortgage-backed securities in Russian rubles hit a new high in issuance last year.