The money will flow directly into the U.S. Treasury Department, which controls the senior preferred shares of the two government-sponsored enterprises.

For the year, the 20 banks earned $3.090 billion from mortgage banking, down 30.5 percent from their income in 2013.

University is based in Hackensack and the purchase gets FFC into the Northern New Jersey market.

Roughly 73 percent of the mortgages in the deal have interest-only terms.

The FHFA proposal, however, could spell trouble for certain nonbank servicers with limited resources.

An official involved in the non-agency MBS market said it’s easier to sell private placements than it is to meet requirements for publicly registered deals

The DBO request for proposal asks that applicants for the Ocwen contract state whether they – or any affiliates – have done any consulting work for the servicer.

On loans with LTVs ranging from 90 percent to 95 percent, for example, GSE pricing was better for all borrowers with credit scores over 620. But things are different now.

Wells Fargo was the largest Fannie/Freddie servicer at yearend with $791.0 billion, followed by Chase Home Finance ($429.1 billion) and Bank of America ($260.4 billion).

Issued late this week, the latest guidance provides a new option for reverse mortgage lenders...