Capital markets

Settlements related to court fights over private-label mortgage-backed securities are significantly boosting the bottom lines at a few Federal Home Loan banks.

Incenter Mortgage Advisors is brokering the sale of an $8.9 billion Ginnie Mae bulk residential mortgage servicing rights portfolio.

Essent Group reported higher net income for the second quarter of 2016 as the company wrote more insurance year-over-year.

Genworth Financial is looking at separating its mortgage insurance business from its life insurance line after it does the same for its long-term care insurance unit.

Mortgage rates declined for the first time in four weeks as the bond market reacted to the news from the Federal Reserve Board's July meeting, according to Freddie Mac.

NMI Holdings reported second-quarter net income of $2 million, making it the first time the company founded in 2012 has ended a period in the black.

Ocwen Financial Corp. is marketing $500 million of notes backed by reimbursement rights to funds it has advanced on residential mortgages that it services.

Benefiting from higher loan guarantee income and lower derivative losses, Freddie Mac said Tuesday it had made $993 million in the second quarter, a dramatic reversal from its $354 million loss a quarter earlier.

Greenlight Capital Re Ltd., the reinsurer seeking to reverse underwriting losses, is pushing into the mortgage guaranty market after being burned by fraudulent claims on property policies in Florida.

Mid America Mortgage in Addison, Texas, has executed its first electronic closing and e-note through its retail origination channel. The closing builds on the company's plan to expand e-closings and e-notes across all of its origination channels.