However, Nationstar, as a master servicer, provides trustees with more than 200 data fields a month regarding loan performance, servicing and more.

But that reticence could be slipping. As the week opened, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury was at 1.94 percent, the highest it has been in several weeks.

Another manager noted that, “It’s been very intense recruiting in the markets that have shown the most growth: Texas, California, Florida and the DC [Washington] area.”

Forty-six different lenders contributed to the MBS led by Quicken Loans with a 39.1 percent share...

Some factions of the industry have expressed a concern about the “liquidity language” in the FHFA proposal, but that’s not a concern for Pingora's Lau.

The Mortgage Bankers Association has secured a favorable clarification from the Financial Accounting Standards Board regarding the treatment of seriously delinquent mortgages in Ginnie Mae pools. The clarification was requested after one of the Big Four accounting firms began requiring lenders that service 90 days plus delinquent loans to put the loans on the balance sheet with an offsetting liability even if they do not intend to buy the loans out of the pool. The requirement would have been...[Includes one data chart]

With Ocwen about to unload a massive amount of servicing rights will the company still need to have such a large back-office operation in India?

Reverse mortgage lenders now have the option to delay calling a Home Equity Conversion Mortgage due and payable where there is an eligible non-borrowing spouse and a case number assigned prior to Aug. 4, 2014. A delay would postpone foreclosure triggered by the death of the HECM borrower or the last surviving borrower and allow the qualified, non-borrowing spouse to stay in the house for a certain period until the HECM is resolved. Under revised FHA guidance, reverse mortgage lenders are allowed to assign eligible HECMs to the Department of Housing and Urban Development upon the death of the borrower. They have the option of foreclosing in accordance with the contract as endorsed or choose the “mortgagee optional election assignment (MOE).” MOE means the optional assignment selected by a lender for a HECM loan with an assigned FHA case number prior to ...

The Mortgage Bankers Association notched a win for small, independent issuers after the Financial Accounting Standards Board agreed with the group’s position on the accounting of seriously delinquent loans in Ginnie Mae pools. At issue is whether companies that service pools with loans that are 90 days or more delinquent should put those loans on their balance sheet even if they have no intention of buying the loans out of the pool. According to the MBA, a Big Four accounting firm issued controversial guidance which would have been burdensome for small mortgage-backed securities issuers that have limited funding and no incentive or history of buying defective loans out of pools. After months of exchanges, FASB staff finally agreed with the MBA’s view that the decision process involves two steps. First, a loan must be 90 days or more delinquent and trigger ...

The nation’s largest nonbank servicer revealed that during 2014, state regulators commenced 46 examinations “of one or more of our areas of operation…”