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The Obama administration had tried to ease restrictions on the Federal Housing Administration's condominium program, but the agency under President Trump is seen as moving more aggressively.

Private mortgage insurers are better positioned to weather a flatter or even inverted yield curve than other financials from an investment perspective, a report from FBR Capital Markets said.

More FHA homeowners than expected are refinancing out of the program and into conventional mortgages, despite an increase in mortgage rates over the past year.

James Bennison, head of alternative capital markets at Arch Capital Group, says that a new insurance-linked security helps with regulatory capital requirements and provides information that can help the company to better manage risk.

Genworth Financial had net income of $107 million because of its U.S. mortgage insurance business, but it is considering a partial sale of the unit if the parent company isn't acquired by next May.

Jeff Tennyson is out as president of Radian Group's Clayton Holdings real estate services business as the holding company provided further details about its restructuring plan.

MGIC Investment Corp.'s third-quarter net income of $120 million was more than double the $56.6 million for the same period last year as its losses incurred fell by over 50%.

With a debt deadline looming and regulators again delaying approval of its takeover by China Ocwenwide, Genworth Financial is weighing how to protect its private mortgage insurance unit from its troubled life insurance business.

Over one-quarter of all mortgages in the areas affected by Hurricane Harvey are likely to become delinquent because of the storm, according to an analysis from Black Knight.

The volume of homes sold to first-time buyers during the second quarter reached a high not seen since 1999 and accounted for more than half of purchase mortgage originations.

Essent Group reported second-quarter net income of $72.1 million, an improvement from the $52.3 million of the same period last year.

Genworth Financial's U.S. private mortgage insurance business had an almost 50% increase in adjusted operating income, benefiting from lower-than-expected claim rates.

Radian Group posted a net loss of $27.3 million on charges associated with the planned restructuring of its underperforming mortgage and real estate services unit.

Old Republic International Corp. is again making noise about bringing its mortgage insurance subsidiary back to active status, while separating it out from the holding company.

Arch Capital Group's mortgage insurance business had second-quarter underwriting income of $184 million, up 343% from the $41.4 million for the same period last year.

The government-sponsored enterprises transferred $5.5 billion of credit risk on $174 billion of mortgages in their portfolios during the first quarter.

MGIC Investment Corp. reported second-quarter net income of $118.6 million, an improvement from the $109.2 million for the same period last year.

Genworth Financial for the second time has withdrawn and refiled its application with the federal government to approve its acquisition by China Oceanwide Holdings Group.

American International Group will receive $590 million in gross proceeds from the sale of Arch Capital Group stock it received in the United Guaranty Corp. transaction.

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