“Our ability to maintain or grow our servicing business may depend, in part, on our ability to acquire servicing rights from, and/or enter into subservicing contracts with, third parties,” the company said in an SEC filing.
A shift in recent years in servicing from banks to nonbanks has been pinned on the capital treatment for bank holdings of mortgage servicing rights, among other issues. However, a survey conducted by the American Bankers Association found that few small banks are selling MSR due to capital standards or other regulatory requirements. The ABA surveyed 159 banks as part of its annual real-estate lending survey. About 76.0 percent of the participating institutions had assets of less than $1.0 billion. Only 2.0 percent of respondents said...
As might be expected, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-TX, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, did his best to pummel the CFPB and its Director Richard Cordray during a hearing Wednesday.
In an interview, Ocwen’s chief compliance officer said: "We are a fully-transformed company and very anxious to break away from some of the regulatory constraints..."
The media call with Barney Frank was sponsored by the Constitutional Accountability Center, which assisted scores of current and former Democrat members of Congress in filing an amicus brief in defense of the CFPB.
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