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The success of the government-sponsored enterprises' credit risk transfer programs shows that they can be the basis for housing finance reform.

Credit unions favor housing finance reforms that would keep the government-sponsored enterprises or something similar in place, but add an explicit government guarantee to their mortgage-backed securities, according to a recent survey.

As inflation fears put upward pressure on 10-year Treasury bonds and mortgage rates nationally, borrowers could start to take more notice of what lenders are charging them locally.

A group of big financial institutions wants to use the blockchain to make it easier and less costly to track home mortgages packaged into securities.

James Bennison, head of alternative capital markets at Arch Capital Group, says that a new insurance-linked security helps with regulatory capital requirements and provides information that can help the company to better manage risk.

Barclays and the Justice Department, engaged in a legal battle over the suspected fraudulent sale of mortgage securities a decade ago, have revived discussions about reaching an out-of-court settlement, according to people with knowledge of the situation.

Carlyle Group LP was exonerated in a lawsuit tied to the collapse of a mortgage fund from 2008, avoiding $1 billion in damages sought by the pool's liquidators.

If mortgage rates rise slowly as the economy continues to grow, the impact from the Fed’s unwind on housing likely will result in a decline in refinancing activity.

EagleBank has been approved as the 13th Ginnie Mae multifamily mortgage-backed securities issuer

The Securities and Exchange Commission isn't planning to bring an enforcement action tied to Deutsche Bank's losing nearly $550 million on mortgage-bond trades.