A mid-sized nonbank based in Texas saw two of its top officers resign last week, industry sources confirmed to IMFnews.

Based on the upward production trend over the last three quarters, it appears the private MIs are on their way to a strong close at year-end.

Skyline CEO Bill Dallas predicted that the nonbank funder could originate almost $4 billion next year, almost double what it produced this year.

The servicing monitor then hired an independent accounting firm, McGladrey, to retest Ocwen’s performance on a number of metrics tied to the national servicing settlement.

More than half of Fannie’s MBS flow in November came from refinance loans, the first time since March that purchase mortgages accounted for less than half of its business.

Aquiline is headed by Jeffrey Wayne Greenberg, son of former AIG chairman Maurice “Hank” Greenberg.

Moreover, CMLA wants lower guaranty fees for seller/servicers...

But who is the mystery lender that Impac is talking to?

Mortgage securitization rates continued to trend lower through the first nine months of 2014 as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac captured a smaller share of the conventional conforming market. A new Inside MBS & ABS analysis reveals that 70.4 percent of home loans originated during the first nine months of the year were packaged into MBS. For all of 2013, the securitization rate was 78.5 percent, and it reached as high as 84.4 percent in 2009, the first year following the financial meltdown. A key factor is...[Includes one data chart]

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