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Capital One Financial Corp. plans to repurchase shares following the sale of $17 billion in mortgages to a Credit Suisse subsidiary.

Demands for loan quality aren't just coming from regulators and the government-sponsored enterprises. Secondary market partners and investors don't want to be left holding the bag if loans that lenders create have quality issues.

Fannie Mae's first-quarter profits were enough for it to rebuild its minimum capital buffer and pay the Treasury Department dividend after being forced to take a draw during the previous fiscal period.

If Freddie Mac's credit-risk transfer activities continue to grow, mortgage lenders could eventually see a reduction in the guarantee fees they pay to the government-sponsored enterprise, according to CEO Donald Layton.

A portfolio manager for an investment firm allegedly defrauded by a former Cantor Fitzgerald managing director said he might still work with a trader who lied to him — depending on the circumstances.

The future secondary mortgage market entities will receive high investment grade ratings, even as there is no clarity on their scope or form, Fitch Ratings said.

Technology startup Eave is making a foray into Colorado's fast-moving, high-end mortgage lending market by offering software designed to quickly analyze jumbo borrowers' more complex incomes and assets.

A pair of the nation's largest banks, Citigroup and Wells Fargo, made changes to their mortgage banking executive teams.

There is an oncoming liquidity crisis that will force consolidation in the mortgage industry as margins tighten and funding sources dry up.

Credit unions favor housing finance reforms that would keep the government-sponsored enterprises or something similar in place, but add an explicit government guarantee to their mortgage-backed securities, according to a recent survey.

As inflation fears put upward pressure on 10-year Treasury bonds and mortgage rates nationally, borrowers could start to take more notice of what lenders are charging them locally.

Freddie Mac is now accepting bids on $420 million in nonperforming loans, its first NPL sale of 2018.

Freddie Mac posted a fourth-quarter net loss of $3.3 billion and will request $312 million from the Treasury after recent tax reform legislation forced it to write down the value of deferred tax assets.

The company that holds Washington Mutual's legacy reinsurance business has agreed to purchase a controlling interest in Nationstar Mortgage and invest in its growth.

Walter Investment Management Corp. plans to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and start trading again under a new name in a matter of days.

Recent stock market volatility may further constrain jumbo lending, while inflation concerns have lenders paying close attention to rising mortgage rates.

Lenders need to be aware of a possible investor backlash as critical defects found in closed loans increased in frequency as the shift continued to a purchase market.

Loan defaults associated with the three late summer hurricanes could have a more immediate effect on MGIC Investment Corp.'s secondary market capital cushion than proposed changes by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Mayor Keisha Bottoms said housing affordability, transparency, public safety, education, and transportation are priorities.