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Deutsche Bank has reached a $95 million settlement with Maryland stemming from the housing crisis that will funnel $80 million to provide new mortgages or mortgage relief to eligible consumers as well as help finance affordable housing.

DLJ Mortgage Capital, a subsidiary of Credit Suisse, is securitizing $91 million of loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration that were once delinquent but are now making timely payments.

Two Harbors Investment Corp. is spinning out its commercial real estate lending business to a newly created real estate investment trust, Granite Point Mortgage Trust Inc.

JPMorgan Chase is marketing another offering of bonds backed by a mix of conforming and jumbo residential mortgages, according to Moody's Investors Service.

U.S. prosecutors working to convict three former Nomura Holdings Inc. mortgage-bond traders are trying to convince jurors that lying about prices amounts to fraud.

U.S. securities regulators are investigating whether bonds backed by single-family rental homes and sold by Wall Street's biggest residential landlords used overvalued property assessments.

One of the largest mortgage-bond investors says it would be a mistake for the federal government to relinquish control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac without first making major changes to the nation's housing-finance system.

Bayview Asset Management is marketing another $183 million of bonds backed by reperforming mortgages acquired last year from CitiFinancial Credit Co.

The onslaught of regulatory actions against Ocwen may open the door for Nationstar to pick up a massive subservicing portfolio from the beleaguered servicer.

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.

Caliber Home Loans' next nonprime mortgage securitization is nearly twice as large as its previous deal, completed in December.

Royal Bank of Canada is the latest Canadian firm to explore a sale of bonds backed by uninsured residential mortgages.

Impac Mortgage Holdings sold $56 million of its common stock as part of a plan to securitize non-qualified mortgage loans.

The real estate investment trust has become a regular issuer, relying on a strategy of exercising "clean-up calls" on older mortgage bonds that it services.

Bank of Montreal is bundling uninsured residential mortgages into bonds in what could be the start of a new financing market for Canadian banks as the government scales back its support for home loans.

Former Jefferies & Co. Managing Director Jesse Litvak says he should be spared prison when he is sentenced later this month following his conviction of a single count of fraud.

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

Fourteen institutional investors represented by the law firm Gibbs & Bruns are supporting the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy plan administrator's offer to settle certain securitized mortgage repurchase claims with securities' trustees.

Deutsche Bank is finding that there just isn't enough soured U.S. mortgage debt anymore.

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan said the central bank should roll off both mortgage-backed securities and Treasury holdings when it begins to let its balance sheet shrink.