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The notes are backed by 1,085 mortgage assets with a balance of $302,891,615. Some are from a unrated deal completed in 2014 that Nationstar recently called. All are insured by the Federal Housing Administration.

The mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are headed for another government bailout soon unless policymakers act, their regulator warned Thursday.

The California Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that borrowers may challenge a wrongful foreclosure on the grounds that the assignment of the deed of trust was invalid.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency's decision to exclude captive insurance companies from Federal Home Loan Bank membership makes the FHLB system like a private country club.

Life insurance companies are an untapped source of potential new Federal Home Loan Bank members, according to analysts at Fitch Ratings.

Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $3.2 billion to end a joint federal-state investigation into its handling of mortgage-backed securities, the fourth deal to be struck in a probe of the big U.S. banks' role in the subprime mortgage meltdown and the financial crisis it spawned.

Spreads on the company’s latest offering of Connecticut Avenue Securities were well wide of levels on the previous deal, completed in October; and that deal, in turn, priced wide of the previous offering in July.

The Federal Home Loan Bank System was designed to provide liquidity to community lenders and traditional insurers, not to unregulated lenders that circumvent the membership rules.

Add this the list of things working against a revival in private-label securitization of residential mortgages: investors are rejecting loans at unprecedented rates because they do not comply with new regulations.