RMBS

An executive at a real estate investment trust that invests in agency and non-agency MBS said proposed credit risk-sharing opportunities with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are among the type of investments his firm would like to buy into.

Freddie Mac's new offering of Structured Pass-Through Certificates backed exclusively by multifamily mortgages with a 7-year term will be sized at $1.0 billion.

New record lows in mortgage rates provided a modest 1.3% stimulus in mortgage application activity for the holiday-shortened week ending June 1.

Former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chair Sheila Bair is at helm of a new private sector, volunteer group, The Systemic Risk Council.

JP Morgan said this week that its buyside survey shows that U.S. investor participation in U.K. RMBS has increased since September 2011.

Ocwen Financial Corp., a provider of residential and commercial loans based in Atlanta, Georgia, bought Aurora Bank’s commercial servicing portfolio.

As head of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), David H. Stevens spent the last year warning that excessive and ill-considered regulation could drag down the mortgage market.

In a short note released this morning, Standard & Poor's analysts said that benchmark European covered bond issuance was €12.5 billion in May, up from €6.6 billion in April.

Bank of America (BofA) over the past two weeks has unloaded roughly $12.4 billion of legacy mortgage servicing rights, selling most of it to Nationstar Mortgage, Lewisville, Texas.