Ginnie Mae issuers sold $26.2 billion of MBS into the secondary market in June, up 3% from the previous month, according to new government figures.
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In the Washington Post last week, housing columnist Kenneth Harney took an interesting look at mortgage loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
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The Federal Reserve Board said Friday it will hold three public hearings on Capital One Financial Corp.'s proposed $9 billion purchase of online bank ING Direct USA.
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In recent weeks Bank of America has been telling analysts and shareholders that it is actively selling mortgage servicing rights while offering little, or no, details on what exactly it unloaded – and at what price.
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Ginnie Mae said late Friday that it is expanding the parameters for loans to be repurchased from its trusts to include those that have successfully completed a three-month trial payment period.
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Pending home sales declined 1.3% to a reading of 89.7 in July from a revised 90.9 in June, according to a report released Monday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR).
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It was business as usual for the financial markets after Hurricane Irene lashed out less destruction than was originally anticipated this past weekend.
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In a rare public rebuke of a rogue attorney general by his colleagues has highlighted the dysfunction among the state AGs and raised doubts about their ability to strike a settlement deal with the largest mortgage servicers.
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CIT Group closed a new $2 billion revolving credit facility with a bank syndicate.
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A U.S. Appeals Court upheld a lower court ruling rejecting claims by FICO that a new credit score developed by credit bureaus Experian, Equifax and TransUnion infringed on its trademark and ordered the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel a FICO trademark.
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Although residential origination volumes swooned in the second quarter, commercial mortgage production picked up nicely at many firms.
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A U.S. District Court judge in Oregon issued a pair of rulings in favor of Merscorp subsidiary Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS), but it remains unclear how those rulings will impact MERS' appeal of a third case where a second federal judge vacated an Oregon borrower's nonjudicial foreclosure.
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