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Genworth Financial, which last year delayed a planned initial public offering of its Australia mortgage insurer, said that the IPO will probably come in 2014, rather than this year.

Countrywide is alleged to have defrauded Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of more than $1 billion in mortgages.

Goldman Sachs Group, JPMorgan Chase and billionaire George Soros are poised for gains from a housing bet placed in the depths of the financial crisis.

MountainView Servicing Group is putting up for bid two Fannie Mae mortgage servicing rights portfolios with a total unpaid principal balance of $1.3 billion.

Interactive Mortgage Advisors, as exclusive broker for an unnamed seller, is putting up for bid $1.1 billion Ginnie Mae/Fannie Mae bulk residential mortgage servicing rights.

Home purchase loan applications are at their highest level since July, up 7% on a seasonally adjusted for the week ended Sept. 20.

We're hearing the re-emergence of some pre-crisis features in post-crisis jumbo securities is not necessarily a bad thing but investors should be aware of their risks.

A new Canada-only securities transaction collateralized by a co-ownership interest in a pool of residential property-secured lines of credit could prove to be a model for future deals of interest to U.S. investors.

The Structured Finance Industry Group has elected a new, 40-person permanent board.