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Flagstar Bancorp will pay $105 million to settle allegations it misrepresented the quality of loans backing securities insured by Assured Guaranty.

After five years in conservatorship, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac still use separate automated underwriting systems with different credit standards.

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has given a little bit more guidance on where the Fed is headed with its plans for unwinding mortgage-backed securities purchases.

Yields on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage bonds that guide U.S. home-loan rates headed toward the largest weekly increase in four years.

A U.S. House subcommittee has approved an appropriations bill that includes cuts to federal spending for public housing and transit.

Amherst Securities Group has brought on UBS veteran Chris McDowell as part of an effort to expand its commercial real estate finance business.

Moody’s Investors Service has put on review for downgrade 1,079 tranches from 299 shifting interest/pro-rata U.S. residential mortgage-backed securities transactions that are reaching or getting closer to the end of their terms.

The coming week could be an important milestone in the march toward GSE reform as the White House comes under pressure to reveal its approach to winding down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The average rate for a 30-year fixed loan climbed to 3.93% earlier this week from 3.35% last month and the record low 3.31% reached in November.

Freddie Mac plans to eliminate a $7,500 annual low-activity fee that has met with a backlash among rural banks that sell a small number of loans each year to the government-sponsored enterprise.

Pacific Investment Management Co. sees value in European commercial mortgage-backed securities on signs of a lending recovery

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara today announced the unsealing of a felony complaint against Seth Beoku-Betts, founder of Betts & Gambles LLC, for defrauding a Midwestern state university in 2008.

The rebranding reflects Archetype's former parent LNR's acquisition.

Report issued in reaction to Ben Bernanke's comments on Wednesday about ending easing.

Borrower told at a seminar there are non-government low downpayment loans available.

Interactive Mortgage Advisors as exclusive broker for an unnamed seller is offering $2.1 billion in Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae bulk residential mortgage servicing rights.

The American Securitization Forum protested a North Las Vegas vote to move forward with an advisory agreement to further evaluate the use of eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages.

Home Loan Servicing Solutions Ltd. is commencing an underwritten public offering of 12.5 million of its ordinary shares.

Shellpoint’s long-awaited first jumbo residential mortgage-backed securities deal is in the pipeline, and it is backed by a $261.58 million loan pool with slightly broader group of borrowers than other deals.

Yields on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage bonds that guide U.S. home loan rates rose to the highest in more than 14 months as the Federal Reserve said risks to the economy have decreased.