Securitization

Fannie Mae's first risk-share transaction of the year is for $1.5 billion.

Freddie Mac will return $900 million to the Treasury Department next month, bringing total payments to nearly $21 billion above what it received in federal aid after the 2008 credit crisis.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who forced Wall Street's biggest banks to pay billions in fines for their roles in the subprime mortgage crisis, is pressing for action against executives at those firms, even as he prepares to leave his post.

Deutsche Bank has pooled 67 fixed-rate commercial mortgages, secured by 81 properties, in a $1.4 billion securitization called COMM 2015-DC1.

One of the culprits in the building and bursting of the nation's housing bubble, the low-down-payment mortgage, is back in favor and readily available at a lender near you.

Delinquencies of new commercial mortgage-backed securities finished January at a post-recession low, according to Fitch Ratings.

Great Ajax Corp., a Maryland-based real estate investment trust, priced its IPO Friday.

Multifamily MBS issuances by Fannie Mae in 2014 increased slightly from the year before, the government-sponsored enterprise said.

Amid a growing investor appetite for risk, efforts to standardize private-label securities are key to helping ensure the market's healthy return.

Genworth Financial's private mortgage insurance business was a rare bright spot for a company that overall, lost $1.2 billion during the fourth quarter.

One of the most widely discussed ideas at ABS Vegas for boosting issuance of private-label residential mortgage securitization involves hiring a third party to monitor the quality of the collateral.

The first multiborrower single-family rental securitization is on its way, and it could be just the beginning.

Hedge funds that profited on residential mortgage debt after the financial crisis such as Pine River Capital Management and Canyon Partners are trimming their bets as prices rise.

A new $913.5 million CMBS is in the market, according to a presale from DBRS.

Former Congressman Barney Frank, co-author of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, is not opposed to changes in the eponymous legislation, but in some cases he thinks the rules should be tightened, rather than loosened.

Bank of America Corp., which had been warning investors to avoid U.S. government-backed mortgage securities, reversed its call this week. The reason: oil prices are stabilizing.

Two Justice Department lawyers leading an effort to hold financial firms accountable for the mortgage-fed debacle that fueled the Great Recession stopped in to talk strategy in mid-2009 with Jerry Brown, then California's attorney general.

Standard & Poor's has agreed to pay Pennsylvania $21.5 million to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed the company defrauded investors by abandoning its role as an independent loan evaluator in the lead-up to the Great Recession.

Ocwen Financial Corp., the mortgage company that's faced attacks from regulators and bond investors, had its proficiency grades reduced by Fitch Ratings.

Dan Sparks helped Goldman Sachs Group Inc. profit from its bets against subprime mortgages. Now he's expanding credit to Americans hurt when those types of loans soured and the housing market collapsed.