“The bureau welcomes and encourages suggestions of cases as candidates for amicus curiae participation,” said the letter, signed by Meredith Fuchs, general counsel of the CFPB.
Although Ocwen Financial is in regulatory hot water with California – a dicey proposition given the state’s importance to the mortgage industry – the nation’s fourth-largest servicer will continue with a strategy of non-agency MBS clean-up calls and Ginnie Mae buyouts. At least, that’s what company Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer John Britti told Inside MBS & ABS late this week. Britti confirmed continuance of the strategy, but declined to offer any new details or color. The big question, of course, is...
The Federal Housing Finance Agency will unveil nonbank capital guidelines for servicers by mid-year. Also on the docket: Changes to loan level price adjustments..
It appears that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may be slowly backing away from making large servicing advance facilities to certain nonbank customers. In a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Green Tree Servicing said it amended an existing facility it had with Barclays Bank, increasing the line to $1.2 billion from just $100 million. A subsidiary of Walter Investment Management, Green Tree then turned around and repaid Fannie Mae some $765 million on the outstanding balance of an existing advance facility. It’s unclear how large Fannie and Freddie are in the advance market, but one servicing advisor had this to say on the topic: “Fannie is the largest lender of servicer advances in the business simply through ...
Ocwen’s plan to sell roughly $182 billion of agency servicing rights may have gone up in smoke this week after it was revealed that the California Department of Business Oversight could pull its mortgage licenses in the state. One servicing advisor, requesting anonymity, said the nonbank’s latest run-in with regulators “effectively put an illiquid label on all of their servicing rights.” Another advisor suggested...
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