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Charles Plosser said he backs a plan for withdrawing monetary stimulus adopted by the Federal Open Market Committee in 2011.

Higher numbers of short sales on securitized residential mortgage loans helped bring down first-quarter losses.

Citigroup’s first-quarter profit rose 30% as revenue from fixed-income trading and investment banking exceeded analysts' estimates.

Origination News' discussion during the Regional Conference of Mortgage Bankers Associations delves into whether the switch to purchase will last and what sort of factors could hold back growth.

Fannie Mae received $161 billion from the U.S. Treasury since it was placed in conservatorship in September 2008 and it has already paid $35 billion in dividends to Treasury.

A former Credit Suisse managing director has pleaded guilty to conspiring to falsify his company’s books and records.

Doug Ryan is on a mission to persuade banks and regulators to create more financing options for manufactured homes—but he faces an uphill battle.

Consumers historically have not made decisions in the same way investors do when it comes to mortgages, but that may be changing.

Analysts at Trepp said in a report that commercial mortgage-backed security conduit deals pricing recently have been at levels wider than March pricings.

The broker business is going to be growing over the next two-to-three years.

We're hearing the piquant financial metaphor “the dead cat bounce” recently, describing the remarkable bounce up in home prices all across the America.

Farmer Mac wants more community banks to consider using its services as a way of bringing in more revenue.

In a few years, the commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy program could have enough California volume to bundle the bonds for public sale.

Several state attorneys general are calling on President Obama to replace Edward DeMarco, the acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency promoted Fred Graham to be deputy director of the Division of Federal Home Loan Bank Regulation.

Customers Bancorp has terminated its agreement to buy Acacia Federal Savings Bank.

Ginnie Mae is seeking input on the potential issues created by it backing two main types of single-family securities.

Certain loan fees that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac charge to cover default risk appear to count towards a points and fees test lenders cannot exceed in making qualified loans.

Of the 17 Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stocks, eight went up, eight declined and one was unchanged.

Carrington Mortgage Services has hired 14 account executives for its wholesale lending division as part of its efforts to expand both product and market reach.