GSEs

Though they have a reputation for being precarious, Federal Housing Administration loans are leading the decline in mortgage application defect risk, according to First American Financial Corp.

Mortgage rates fell as investors purchased more 10-year Treasury bonds after the Federal Open Market Committee decided to leave short-term rates unchanged.

Eight years after high-risk, deceptive lending practices precipitated a near-meltdown of the global economy, we learned that at least 5,300 Wells Fargo employees created 2 million sham accounts that its customers apparently did not want, need or understand.

Low interest rates are keeping the housing market strong even as affordability keeps declining, according to Freddie Mac.

Fannie Mae has awarded its latest "community impact" pool of nonperforming loans to an affiliate of the nonprofit New Jersey Community Capital.

Now that Fannie Mae requires trended data credit reports for its automated underwriting system, will other secondary market players follow suit? If so, how soon?

Freddie Mac plans to say it will start a pilot program to increase the amount of risk it shares with private mortgage insurers.

Fannie Mae employees will be working this weekend to update the agency's automated underwriting machine to process trended data for the first time.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac want to make it easier for owners of older apartment buildings to make energy efficient upgrades.

Mortgage rates ticked down slightly from last week's post-Brexit high in anticipation of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting, according to Freddie Mac.

Fannie Mae has completed two Credit Insurance Risk Transfer transactions worth $14.4 billion, in a continuation of its efforts to reduce taxpayer risk through an increased role for private capital in the mortgage market.

The next administration in the White House must act swiftly to move reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac off dead center, and Ginnie Mae President Ted Tozer suggested that the model for a new secondary market is already in place.

Economic growth in the second half of 2016 is expected to outpace the rate seen in the first half of the year, according to Fannie Mae.

MountainView Servicing Group is the adviser for the sale of a $3.3 billion Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bulk mortgage servicing rights portfolio.

New American Funding and Alterra Home Loans are partnering on a new loan program using Freddie Mac's low-down-payment Home Possible mortgages.

Activity under the Making Home Affordable program increased in the second quarter thanks to the introduction of the Streamline Home Affordable Mortgage Program, according to a performance report from the Treasury Department.

Kentucky district court judge rules that the courts cannot interfere with the GSE regulator's wind down of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The share of lenders who cite government regulatory compliance as a main factor that will cause a decrease in profits has dropped dramatically, according to Fannie Mae.

The average rate for the 30-year fixed rate mortgage increased to its highest level since the British vote to exit the European Union, according to Freddie Mac.

Renovate America is marketing a $320.2 million securitization of Property Assessed Clean Energy bonds, its third of the year and eighth overall.