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Ocwen’s Servicing Sales: A ‘Controlled Liquidation’?

March 2, 2015
Paul Muolo
A spokesman for Ocwen declined to comment on the “controlled liquidation” characterization and could offer no time table on when the lender/servicer might release its fourth quarter results.
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Don’t Even Think of Basing LO Compensation on Loan Terms

March 2, 2015
Thomas Ressler
Kristie Kully of K&L Gates discussed how the rule treats issues related to splitting commissions, a subject her firm gets a lot of questions about...
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Fortress-Controlled Nationstar Files a $1 Billion Shelf for Debt, Stock and More

March 2, 2015
Paul Muolo
Nationstar is 74 percent owned by hedge fund giant Fortress Investment Group.
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Phoenix Offering Flow Deal That Could Yield $3.6 Billion of Product

March 2, 2015
Paul Muolo
Eventually, the seller may offer $500 million per month in GSE product or $6 billion per year.
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Short Takes: FHFA Wants Greater Accountability on GSE NPL Sales / A Fannie NPL Auction? / Ocwen Earnings Not Coming Soon? / Radian Lassoes 200 New Customers / Michael Kim Moves to Apollo

March 2, 2015
Paul Muolo
On Monday, the Federal Housing Finance Agency published new guidelines to govern nonperforming loan sales by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...
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Ocwen Updates: Big Goodwill Charge, Plans to Sell $45 Billion of Fannie MSRs

March 2, 2015
Paul Muolo
Coupled with a recently announced Freddie Mac MSR sale to Nationstar ($9.8 billion), Ocwen estimated the sale of GSE receivables will generate $550 million in gross proceeds.
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Ocwen Tallies Up the Financial Damage on Servicing Terminations: $800,000; Speculation over 4Q Results Mounts

March 1, 2015
Paul Muolo
One investor, commenting on the lack of information regarding 4Q results, told IMFnews: “I think the attorneys are going to make them disclose a lot of stuff that they have been brushing under the rug..."
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Commercial Banks, Thrifts Add to MBS Portfolios in Late 2014

February 27, 2015
John Bancroft
At Dec. 31, depositories held $964.2 billion of pass-through securities issued by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae, a gain of 1.3 percent from the third quarter.
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Banks Add to MBS Portfolios in Late 2014; Biggest Gain Was in Fannie/Freddie MBS

February 27, 2015
Commercial banks and thrifts added $12.2 billion of agency single-family MBS to their investment portfolios during the fourth quarter of 2014, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS ranking and analysis of call-report data. Banks and thrifts held $1.539 trillion of MBS on their books at the end of last year, a slight 0.3 percent increase from the third quarter. Bank/thrift holdings were up 2.2 percent from the end of 2013. Growth in agency mortgage securities was...[Includes two data charts]
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FOMC Plans to Let Mortgage Securities Run Off; Meanwhile, the Status Quo Prevails on Interest Rates

February 27, 2015
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen indicated this week that the central bank ultimately plans on holding few, if any, mortgage-related securities on its balance sheet. It seems unlikely there will be much in the way of actual sales of agency MBS by the Fed, which leaves run-off as the method of choice to drain the central bank’s portfolio. Delivering her semi-annual Humphrey-Hawkins testimony this week on Capitol Hill, the Fed chief said the FOMC intends to adjust its monetary policy during its normalization process mostly by changing its target range for the federal funds rate and not by actively managing its balance sheet. “The primary means of raising the federal funds rate will be to increase the rate of interest paid on excess reserves,” Yellen said. She also noted...
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