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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.

Jesse Litvak was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $2 million after he was convicted a second time for lying about mortgage-backed securities prices.

Agency mortgage-backed securities issuance increased in 2016, rising to $1.6 trillion from $1.3 trillion, while nonagency mortgage securitization issuance decreased.

A $165 million cash settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit that alleged investors were misled about the safety of mortgage-backed securities comprised of loans originated by now-defunct subprime lender NovaStar Mortgage Inc.

Jefferies Group has added a third lender to its latest securitization of a mortgage warehouse facility.

Former Jefferies LLC managing director Jesse Litvak "lied to his customers" about the prices of mortgage-backed securities, a prosecutor told jurors as the U.S tries for a second time to win a conviction that sticks.