Freddie Mac has a new offering of structured passthrough certificates or K certificates. The deal comprises roughly $1 billion in multifamily MBS, which are set to price this week.

Western Asset Mortgage Capital Corp. today announced its plans for an IPO of 8,000,000 shares of its common stock.

The House approved a student loan bill Friday on a partisan basis that immediately invoked a veto threat by the White House.

National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)is preparing to ease the reins on the use of financial derivatives and allow more credit unions to deal in a variety of instruments that would help them hedge interest rate risk, including interest rate swaps, caps, floors, options and collars.

Housing industry groups are pressing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to craft a qualified mortgage rule that shields lenders from meritless litigation and ensures access to affordable and sustainable mortgages.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has indefinitely delayed its timeline for a highly anticipated decision on whether to allow principal reductions on loans owned by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, an agency spokeswoman said Friday.

Manager Activity: Autos Book Runner Amount (US$ Mil) Rank Mkt.

2012 2011 2010 ABS (Public + 144A) 84,120.7 51,871.4 54,973.4 ABS (Public + 144A excluding CDOs) 78,030.6 49,575.6 54,157.0 ABS (Public Only) 50,623.8 30,134.2 24,089.1 ABS (144A Only) 33,497.0 21,737.2 30,884.3 Non-Agency MBS 16,782.1 25,040.6 7,934.8 Agency MBS 112,523.7 173,096.3 205,764.4 CMBS 8,081.5 12,799.3 8,384.0

MORTGAGE DATA 30-yr. Fixed 15-yr. Fixed 5-yr Treasury 1-yr Treasury- MBA Refi Home Purchase Rate Mortgage Rate Mortgage Indexed ARMs Indexed ARMs Index Index Week ending 05/31/12 3.75%

On April 20 a judge decided that a case seeking to reverse bond insurer MBIA's 2009 transformation into two companies will go to trial on May 14.

The recent CMBS backed by nonperforming commercial real estate (CRE) loans from Rialto Capital Advisors is the beginning of a trend, Fitch Ratings said in a recent report. It is the first CMBS to be backed by nonperforming loans (NPLs) in years.