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Essent Group has priced a $267 million secondary public offering of its common stock.

An automated consumer training technology aims to mitigate compliance risk in loans outside qualified mortgage standards for liability protection.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's new low down payment loans products may not represent such a risk to the Federal Housing Administration program as some have feared.

Fannie Mae priced its final risk-sharing offering for this year of Connecticut Avenue Securities bonds for $1.45 billion.

Only eleven months after cheering Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Melvin Watt's confirmation, Senate Democrats are fed up with the pace of reforms at the agency.

MountainView Servicing Group will serve as an advisor in the sale of a $1.2 billion Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage servicing rights portfolio.

More than 60 members of Congress joined banks and credit union trade groups this week in urging the agency to modify its plan to require members of the 12 regional Home Loan Banks to hold a certain percentage of mortgages on their books.

Going from 5% to 3% may seem like a small difference, but depending on the details, it could mean thousands of new buyers into the market.

The New York unit of Japanese securities firm Nomura Holdings may be three traders short after reportedly placing them on leave, but the firm is said to have muscled away a large auction held yesterday.

The U.S. Treasury and the federal overseer for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should consider ending government control of the two companies if Congress fails to reform the housing-finance system, Sen. Tim Johnson said.