GSEs

Interest rates on fixed-rate mortgage loans fell for the third consecutive week, according to Freddie Mac.

M&T Bank Corp. said it's in discussions with U.S. officials to settle an investigation into the lender's origination and sale of federally insured home loans.

Freddie Mac's second-quarter single-family funding was the strongest it's been in a year, positioning the company to supplant the coming drop in refinancing with purchase mortgages.

Ginnie Mae has updated the procedures manual used by the custodians of documents involved in mortgage-backed securities.

United Guaranty Corp.'s second-quarter pretax operating income fell 25% from a year ago due to a less favorable adjustment to its loan loss reserves.

Freddie Mac will send $3.9 billion to the Treasury Department next month after reporting second-quarter net income of $4.2 billion.

Commercial real estate borrowing and lending continued at a strong clip in the second quarter, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Banks are seeing stronger consumer demand for credit for a range of products, including residential mortgages, auto loans and credit cards, according to a Federal Reserve Board survey of senior loan officers released Monday.

Freddie Mac has launched its first securitization of small-balance loans on multifamily properties. The 44 mortgages backing the $108 million of SB1 Certificates are underwritten by Freddie Mac and originated by Greystone Servicing Corp.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has agreed to pay around $270 million to settle a lawsuit by investors who claimed the bank misled them about the safety of billions of dollars worth of residential mortgage-backed securities.

There was a six-basis-point decline in the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage during the week ending July 30, Freddie Mac said in its latest weekly report.

The House Financial Services Committee approved a bill that would delay the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's enforcement of the new TILA-RESPA integrated disclosure rules. It also approved two additional bills addressing the qualified mortgage rule and GSE executive compensation.

EverBank Financial, driven by growth in jumbo mortgage originations, had second quarter home loan volume of $2.7 billion, up from $2.2 billion one year prior.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is still not producing enough adequately-trained examiners necessary to monitor Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, according to an inspector general report.

A survey from Fannie Mae found that lenders use credit overlays in a limited manner, with some variations based on channel.

The government-sponsored enterprises are buying conforming mortgages with as little as 3% down, but the new policy can't improve the housing market by itself.

A dispute over pay for the chief executive officers at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could put Barack Obama and House Republicans together in an unusual alignment against a housing official appointed by the president.

Signs of optimism are growing for acquisition, development and construction loans as banks hone strategies in a market transformed by the crisis.

Housing markets are steadily improving nationwide, according to the latest Freddie Mac's Multi-Indicator Market Index.

The U.S. economy was stronger than expected, according to Fannie Mae's analysis of this year's second quarter.