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The $157 billion-asset, online bank began offering mortgages on its website on Sunday night under the brand name Ally Home, a company spokeswoman said

SoFi Lending Corp. has launched its debut prime jumbo residential mortgage securitization.

A bipartisan duo of House lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday that would push Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to engage in more credit risk-sharing transactions.

One of latest proposals for reviving the private-label residential mortgage market involves improving communications between issuers and investors.

Development on the Common Securitization Platform has reached a point where Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may be able to issue a uniform mortgage-backed security sometime in 2018.

Caliber Homes Loans has achieved its first triple-A ratings for a subprime residential mortgage securitization in just its third asset-backed transaction since launching its platform this summer.

An £821.7 million pool of higher-risk problem UK residential mortgage loans originated by GE Home Money Lending and other GEHML-affiliated is being pooled into in a new Towd Point Mortgage Trust asset-backed offering arranged through Credit Suisse.

Fannie Mae joined Freddie Mac in announcing plans to delist some previously-issued debt Connecticut Avenue Securities, which transfer the credit risk on residential mortgages, from the Irish Stock Exchange.

Removing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from government control, as Treasury Secretary-designate Steven Mnuchin would like to, could mean the two entities will do more to compete for lenders' loans.