Secondary markets

Fintech and marketplace lender LendingHome is getting more than $450 million in investment and funding from different channels to help support mortgage production growth and technology improvements.

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.

Fed economists are suggesting a new mortgage product that would allow home buyers to build equity faster and give banks incentive to profitably hold the loans in portfolio.

Lima One Capital is expanding its single-family investor financing business by acquiring the residential debt business of the marketplace lender RealtyShares.

Former Ginnie Mae President Ted Tozer will join securitization pioneer Lewis Ranieri at a new housing policy team at the Milken Institute.

As head of Fannie Mae's single-family mortgage business, Andrew Bon Salle wants to ease the burden of loan-level price adjustments, streamline condo loan approvals and expand rep and warrant relief. But even he admits there are limits to his power.

The government-sponsored enterprise is still looking for the right balance between offering a product that's attractive to investors and a cost-effective way to reduce risk.

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.

Freddie Mac is on track to double the number of low down payment mortgages it will buy in 2017, while continuing to see its serious delinquency rate fall to record lows.