Many of those winning bidders are hedge funds with Wall Street backing, including Lone Star Funds and Bayview Asset Management.

CalCap is about to enter the Phoenix market and is considering other western states as well.

The $227 million portfolio is top heavy with California product which accounts for roughly 62 percent of the receivables.

Ocwen Financial, whose stock has been clobbered this year, recently increased the base salary of its chief financial by $50,000...

Freddie’s program, which is called “Home Possible Advantage,” requires a minimum credit score of 660 for purchase loans, and 680 for "no cash-out" refis. This is only for manually underwritten loans.

However, NAR found that the willingness to actually originate non-QMs declined significantly across a number of different product types...

According to the offering circular, the package has no delinquencies and a coupon of 3.70 percent.

Industry advisor Joe Garrett said in a client note he knows of a lender that had its pre-approval letter scrutinized by the CFPB.

Michael Levitis, principal of the Mission Settlement Agency (a debt-settlement company), was slapped with a nine-year prison sentence and ordered to pay $2.2 million in restitution and a fine of $15,000 after pleading guilty to several charges brought in response to the CFPB’s first publicly announced criminal referral to the U.S. Department of Justice last year. Levitis pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud, and another count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He has been ordered to surrender for service of his sentence on Feb. 23, 2015, at an institution to be determined by the state Bureau of Prisons. Upon release from imprisonment, Levitis will be on supervised release for a term ...

Last week, the CFPB asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to enter a consent order requiring Premier Consulting Group to pay a civil penalty of $69,075 – accusing the firm of charging consumers illegal upfront fees for debt-settlement services they never received – and to take other steps to prevent future legal violations. That sum represents the amount of advance fees the company took from consumers who did not have any debt settled, according to the bureau. Included in the CFPB’s legal action was the law office of Michael Lupolover. Both firms are based in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Premier Consulting “took advantage of consumers in financial distress, charging tens of thousands of dollars for services they ...