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There is little proof that a doubling of guarantee fees in the last year by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has brought private investors back into the mortgage market, says the FHFA's inspector general.

House Republicans unveiled sweeping legislation to unwind Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and overhaul the mortgage finance system on Thursday — a plan that, as expected, contrasts sharply with bipartisan legislation pending in the Senate.

Ginnie Mae is moving closer to merging the Ginnie I MBS program into the Ginnie II MBS program and now it is going to develop a blueprint to manage the consolidation.

Nomura's $440 million residential mortgage securitization has sparked a debate about the risk of deals backed by a large number of loans in the same state.

Nomura Corporate Funding is issuing a $440.081 million jumbo residential mortgage-backed securitization.

the analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch have revised down their structured-finance issuance forecast in Europe for 2013

The widening in structured finance spreads is not yet a cause for credit concerns, according to a weekly outlook by Standard & Poor’s.

Final bank capital rules are likely positive for non-agency remics and mildly positive for some other assets, such as bonds backed by student loans, according to Barclays.