Meanwhile, Ocwen watchers are scratching their heads over a fourth quarter goodwill charge that eventually could reach $420 million...

For all of 2014, this group of banks and nonbanks earned $14.01 billion off of mortgages, a 39.6 percent drop from the year before.

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.

Nationstar is 74 percent owned by hedge fund giant Fortress Investment Group.

Eventually, the seller may offer $500 million per month in GSE product or $6 billion per year.

On Monday, the Federal Housing Finance Agency published new guidelines to govern nonperforming loan sales by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...

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.

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..."

Although the Federal Housing Finance Agency has yet to tip its hand on where it might be headed regarding guaranty fees, most of the industry is betting on no change at all – or possibly a slight reduction, according to interviews conducted by Inside MBS & ABS over the past two weeks. Moreover, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac themselves are playing a key role in the decision-making process, at least that’s what Freddie CEO Donald Layton said recently. “Guaranty fees are...

The window to pass reform measures, even narrowly targeted provisions that have bipartisan support, might be closing.