Fannie and Freddie don't get out of bed in the morning without first talking to the FHFA. (Then again, the two are in conservatorship.)

Mortgage professionals overwhelmingly believe the Dodd-Frank Act should be revised, removing barriers to innovation and to reduce the cost of manufacturing a mortgage.

Fannie Mae is still the most prolific author of single-family MBS, accounting for 46.6 percent of agency MBS outstanding at Dec. 31.

How is Fortress feeling this morning? It owns 70 percent of Nationstar's common.

But now comes the hard part for Ocwen: Unloading Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac receivables that have delinquencies.

But when the letter first came to light one little fact was not readily known: that Devaney was also an Ocwen shareholder.

Sources note that earlier in the year, the privately held Carrington was the winning bidder on a roughly $20 billion package of Ginnie MSRs sold by BofA.

Fitch said the downgrade was tied to Green Tree’s “aggressive portfolio growth,” noting that the nonbank grew its MSR portfolio by almost three-fold over the past two years.

The CFPB amendments cover nine primary topics, including force-placed insurance and loss mitigation...

Although Ocwen is out of compliance with the NYSE, it continues to sell mortgage servicing rights. Late Monday it disclosed a $25 billion MSR sale to Nationstar.