Secondary markets

The worst first half for Treasuries in four years has wrung the unprecedented Federal Reserve stimulus out of bond prices as investors now look to low inflation and slow economic growth to contain yields.

Positive forecasts on 10-year-guaranteed agency commercial mortgage-backed securities do not change analysts’ expectations to see sluggish CRE loan growth.

Roger Cozzi, who joined AllianceBernstein this year, will lead the fund and AllianceBernstein's newly formed CRE debt group.

Barclays is expanding its West Coast staff that handles commercial mortgage-backed securities.

Wells Fargo is predicting a sharp decline in mortgage originations this quarter, but CEO John Stumpf is hardly worried.

This is the first post-downturn year in which the number of companies that have done rated deals has notably multiplied.

Congress passed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act in response to the severe downturn in the housing market.

The Veterans Administration is the only government agency that has not made huge underwriting rule changes for several years now.

A new online wholesale trading platform was launched by SecondaryWire designed to accommodate the sale of brokers’ and correspondents’ loans to investors.

Investors in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac accused the U.S. of depriving them of the value of their preferred shares when it changed the terms of its takeover of the mortgage finance companies in August 2012.

Both the largest loan and another loan have split loan structures where the property also supports a pari passu companion loan.

The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee wants private investors to share in some of the credit risk on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Federal Housing Administration loans.

Through MPF Xtra, loans are aggregated and sold to Fannie Mae.

W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital executives find deciding whether holding or selling mortgage servicing rights is worthwhile for the company in the long run both tough and rewarding.

Fannie Mae issued $7.6 billion of multifamily mortgage-backed securities in the second quarter from newly originated loans.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has made it a priority to develop a single platform as opposed to upgrading the individual platforms that Fannie and Freddie currently use.

Ginnie Mae is moving closer to merging the Ginnie I mortgage-backed security program into the Ginnie II MBS program.

CIFG Assurance North America agreed to settle lawsuits against Goldman Sachs Group and Capital One Financial’s GreenPoint Mortgage Funding over mortgage-backed securities.

Oregon lawmakers passed an $800 million bonding package to fund construction projects.

A federal judge has rejected Standard & Poor’s bid to dismiss a Justice Department suit claiming it intentionally ignored its own standards rating risky investments sold to WesCorp FCU and Eastern Financial Florida CU.